Cops serve Nemstov another helping of PR
Solidarity may be band of “scrubby little opposition organizations [that] have no future,” but if things keep going the way their going, Boris Nemtsov will be wining and dining on American think tank honorariums, hobnobbing with US politicos, and testifying in front of Congress for years to come. Wait, haven’t they done a bit of […]
More on Kyrgyzstan
I haven’t done an update on Kyrgyzstan in several days. While things seemed to have calmed in the southern part of the country, tensions are high, the humanitarian crisis is deep, and the political outcomes are uncertain. Two questions have been occupying most commentators: Why the violence, or, specifically why didn’t we see it coming? […]