Bishkek District Court considered the case of Igor Trofimov of the Sergei of Radonezh and Manas the Benevolent Fund vs the US AF Base in Manas and turned down the request to oust the military installation from the territory of Kyrgyzstan.

Trofimov demanded voidance of the government accord (2001) on establishment of the AF base of the counter-terrorism coalition in Manas and insisted on having the agreement terminated by the government of Kyrgyzstan.

Viewing Trofimov's arguments as insufficiently sound, the court turned down both requests.

The counter-terrorism coalition established the AF base in Manas (Bishkek) prior to the onset of the US military operation in Afghanistan in 2001. Anti-American forces in Kyrgyzstan responded with a series of protests against establishment of the base. Islamic communities unofficially objected to establishment of the base which they knew would be used to air-raid the believers in Afghanistan.

The army of opponents also included Kyrgyz Communists and the elderly Kyrgyzes, all of them feeling traditional animosity with regard to the United States and promoting rapprochement with Russia. In 2007, they pooled efforts, formed a movement for withdrawal of the US AF Base, and staged several mass protests both at the base and in front of the US Embassy in Bishkek.

The Kyrgyz authorities themselves backed the protests covertly and never hesitated to use them as an argument at the bilateral talks with the United States over a higher rent. Put under pressure by its partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2006, Kyrgyzstan advised the Americans to decide exactly when they intended to withdraw the base and upped the annual rent from $2 million to $200 million. As a matter of fact, the Americans only pay Bishkek $45 million a year at best.