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Kyrgyzstan: what will happen to the tulips?, Boris Dolgin openDemocracy - Kyrgyzstan: what will happen to the tulips?, Boris Dolgin
How should we interpret the current disturbances in Kyrgyzstan? Should we be requiring that power be handed on democratically? Bakiev’s government came to power by a route that was far from democratic.
Do the people have an inherent right to... Central Asia: new security challenges, Kenneth Yalowitz , William Courtney and Denis Corboy
Central Asia -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- is insecure. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have ethnic kin fighting in Afghanistan who might target repressive rulers at home. The extremist Islamic Movement of... Charisma and complications: the legacy of Abkhazia’s founding father, Sergei Markedonov
Vladislav Ardzinba died in Moscow on 4 March 2010, taking from us another representative of the generation which moved into the political limelight at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s.
In Abkhazia, where he Vladislav Ardzinba was... The AfPak war: failures of success, Paul Rogers
A number of news reports in March-April 2010 claims that the accelerated use of armed-drones is having a hugely disruptive effect on the al-Qaida movement. Most of these reports, which appear to emanate from CIA sources, identify western... US and Russia sign historic nuclear deal, Josephine Whitaker
The US and Russian presidents signed an historic nuclear disarmament treaty today in Prague. The agreement replaces the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired in December 2009.
Potential compromise over renminbi may avert US-China trade war, Oliver Scanlan
On Thursday, the US treasury department announced that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had held talks with Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan in Beijing. No details of the meeting have been released by either side, but it is understood that at... Put the business bosses in their place, Tony Curzon Price
George Osborne wants to reduce National Insurance Contributions - essentially a tax on work - and pay for the £6bn cut by finding efficiency savings in the public sector. Labour retort that the savings will actually imply painful cuts – there is... What Gordon Brown once believed, Anthony Barnett
The Guardian's Comment is Free ran this immediate response from me yesterday about the speech Gordan Brown had just made (and I add a further reflection below it)
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