The Millennium Challenge Corporation, America’s dynamic new development agency, has announced which countries will be funded for the 2006 fiscal year. Despite Kazakhstan’s newfound status as America’s darling, it was selected neither as a …

Kazakhstan seems to be the only Central Asian country that has gotten positive press lately. With Turkmenistan’s president still a punch-line, protests and mysterious prison murders in Kyrgyzstan, and Soviet-esqe show trials in …