The Boston Globe, March 26th, 2005
THE TOPPLING of President Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan is being compared, too quickly, to the popular movements in Georgia and Ukraine that replaced corrupt authoritarian regimes with democratically elected governments. The desperately poor people of Kyrgyzstan deserve a better government than they have had, and the outside world ought to help with sensible development aid. But there is reason to doubt that Kyrgyzstan is experiencing a flowering of democratic peoples' power akin to the Rose Revolution in Georgia or the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. The crowds that took over towns in the south of...
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