The Economist: Digital highlights, November 5th 2011
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Democracy in Kyrgyzstan: Roses for Roza
A new president-elect wins office peacefully—and promptly sets America to wonder about the status of its military base(15)
An election in Kyrgyzstan: Bridging the divide
An important vote, but tensions and economic woes remain(1)
Kyrgyzstan’s Uzbeks: Weak fences, bad neighbours
Discord continues between the country’s two largest ethnic groups(6)
Investigating Kyrgyzstan's ethnic violence: Bloody business
Rare in this part of the world, an outside body is allowed to peer in(2)
Banyan: More black tea than jasmine
Watching the Middle East and north Africa, Central Asia’s rulers see no pressing reason to fret(11)
Kyrgyzstan: The Kyrgyzstani experiment
Kyrgyzstan does enjoy an advantage, however: geography. Its strategic location makes it courted by the great powers(4)
Kyrgyzstan's election: Teetering steppes
A good poll promises a creaky coalition(5)
Kyrgyzstan's election: Making a Switzerland on the Fergana
Spirited but peaceful voting for a new government is perhaps the most hopeful event to grace the region in years(11)
Kyrgyzstan's election: A vote into the unknown
Parliamentary elections may not calm simmering ethnic tensions(2)
Kyrgyzstan: Searching for justice in Kyrgyzstan
This casts doubt on the sincerity of the new regime’s professed devotion to democracy and human rights(28)
Anti-poverty programmes: Give the poor money
Conditional-cash transfers are good. They could be even better(44)
A referendum in Kyrgyzstan: Better than feared
But the government is still struggling(1)
Russia and its neighbourhood: Russia's empty empire
Russia’s neo-imperialist ambitions founder on the rocks of reality(346)
Kyrgyzstan's humanitarian crisis: Sad homecoming
Refugees start to return, to an uncertain future(14)
Uzbekistan and its strongman: There, nothing but order and beauty
The reasons for Uzbekistan's cautious reaction to the pogroms next door(1)
The latest outbreak of violence in the ethnic boiling-pot of Central Asia will take generations to heal(18)
Kyrgyzstan: Stalin's latest victims
The Kyrgyzstani government deserves help in dealing with history’s dangerous legacy(21)
Women in politics: Make decisions not coffee
Where are the women in CEE politics?(5)
Violence in Kyrgyzstan: Stalin's harvest
What lies behind the violence in Kyrgyzstan(192)
Civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan: What's there to fight about?
Bloody street-fighting in the southern city of Osh looks eerily familiar(47)
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