15 October 1998 Nothing ever happened in Central Asia; it was a quiet and remote desert of conservatism. The conservatism has remained. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan are ruled like feudal states by presidents who all extended their terms, probably indefinitely, with dubious referenda. The parliament of Kyrgyzstan rejected such a permanent presidency by only a […]

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