The BBC reports today that Kyrgyzstan will be shuttering the United States air base outside the capital city of Bishkek. This is pretty big news any direction that you cut it, but given our new “focus” on fixing things in Afghanistan, the closing of the Manas base is really, really, really important. You can check [...]
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Kyrgyzstan Deux
June 20th, 2008
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Update: I’ve posted the Democracy in Kyrgyzstan research paper, in its entirety, on Google Docs. Given the current upheaval in the country, I thought it reasonable to finally get my keister in gear and display it. The research apparently did its job – I received an “A” in the course. Now it’s a matter of [...]
Kyrgyzstan
May 29th, 2008
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I have finished and submitted my term paper for Democratization in the Middle East. Naturally, I did a democracy assessment for Kyrgyzstan. While not in the Middle East per se, it is a majority Muslim country that before 1991 had never been. The research was the most fascinating thing. Taking my conversations with people about [...]
Santa Claus
February 20th, 2008
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It’s quite possible that I have no idea what is going on here: http://morrire.livejournal.com/427196.html Or it might be just what I think it is. A study by the Swedish consulting firm SWECO late last year determined that for Kris Kringle to maximize his gift-delivering to all the billions of young people across the world, he [...]
