Kyrgyzstan:
- Kyrgyz Foreign Minister upset that Otenbayeva is unable to run
- A recent Kyrgyzstan news roundup at EurasiaNet
- IWPR election update 5 which includes Russia’s declaration to stay out of the Kyrgyzs election
- Bribing out the vote
Tajikistan
- The ruling party is pulling out all the stops to guarantee it maintains its position of power
Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Monitor on the DCK shutdown (via DCK news)
- Ak Zhol speaks out in defense of DCK
- DCK statement to its members regarding its shutdown
- An opposition newspaper is being sued for $1,149,954,000 by Boris Godunov, who seems to have a history of this sort of thing.
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The article in IWPR is pretty inflammatory. And their sources kinda stink. My husband has never heard of, for example, this election monitoring group in the Osh region.
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Anyway, did you read my little piece on the big election meeting last week? I’m trying to be very vague, so you might not understand it!