Another hole gapes in Putin's post-Soviet vision
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1445510,00.html
Ian Traynor
Friday March 25, 2005
The Guardian
The revolutions rolling through Russia's backyard shifted thousands of
miles yesterday from the borders of the European Union to the Chinese
frontier as Kyrgyzstan fell to the daffodil-clutching opponents of the
former communist apparatchik and Leningrad physicist Askar Akayev,
whose early promise degenerated into nepotism, sleaze, rigged elections
and the jailing of rivals.
The daffodils of Bishkek suggested a springtime of hope in the
dictatorial "stans" of central Asia. But the Kyrgyz capital was so
suffused with menace and volatility that its uprising could quickly
turn ugly and violent, setting it apart from the Ukrainian and Georgian
revolutions of the past 18 months.
Ian Traynor
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c4b80681440cc5db
Kyrgyzstan
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/ddf7d94e549afa70
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