by Vasilii Tkachenko and Alexis Martin Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev likes to hear references to his country as an island of democracy in Central Asia, but at least one major obstacle toward making that label stick remains on the books: a law that classifies libel as a criminal offense and includes fines and jail sentences. And recent events in Kyrgyzstan […]
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