Democracy

A Kyrgyz power play beginning?

by Steven_Schwerbel

Something seems to be afoot in Kyrgyzstan — after another slaying of a journalist (the third this year) and the rearranging of the government that put the President’s son into a leading role, the Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party is speaking out: Ata-Meken opposition party disseminated the statement of its leader Omurbek Tekebaev, where he blames Kyrgyz [...]

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Afghan Election Runoff, Redux

by TK

Please extend a warm welcome to T.K., the first of our contributors who answered the call to join the super-awesome fun of writing for Registan.net. As soon as Nathan is connected to a computer again, I promise, he’ll have his own author’s account. It’s official, there will be a runoff election in Afghanistan. I see [...]

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