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Kyrgyz election: Schroedinger’s democracy stirs
Kanat Shaku in Almaty
Kyrgyzstan, once hailed as an “island of democ- racy” surrounded by autocratic neighbours, will on Sunday October 15 hold its second presidential election since the toppling of Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s regime in April 2010. However, the ex-Soviet na- tion’s visible struggle for a democratic government actually goes back to 2005, when Askar Akayev’s
Slovak court reopens question of whether Czech election favourite Babis was secret police informer
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Slovakia's Constitutional Court on October 12 ordered a lower court to re-examine claims that Andrej Babis, favourite to become prime minister in the upcoming Czech election, collaborated with
The law rules out another term for President Almazbek Atambayev but observers fear he intends to pull the strings from the shadows.
government was overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution. At the centre of it all sits a man often credited as the leading figure of the Central Asian nation’s two consecutive revolutions - cur- rent Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev.
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Andrej Babis with his then-partner (now wife) Monika in 2015.
the Czechoslovak communist-era secret police. The court's acceptance of a request made by
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