http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/kyrgyzstan-protests-worry-kazakhstan-again/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/kyrgyzstan-protests-worry-kazakhstan-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:56:39 +0000 http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/?p=198#comment-1742 [...] …and wider repercussions Kamron (RUS) reports that Kazakh President Nazarbayev met with his Uzbek counterpart Karimov, allegedly to discuss the ramifications of the events across the border in Kyrgyzstan. On neweurasia, Leila took up the same topic and said that images of the perpetual crisis in Kyrgyzstan had previously been used on Kazakh television: In a disguised election campaign, Kazakh television showed the riots in Paris, the Kyrgyz revolution, followed by peaceful pictures of Kazakhstan reality. Maybe it helped really. [...] [...] …and wider repercussions Kamron (RUS) reports that Kazakh President Nazarbayev met with his Uzbek counterpart Karimov, allegedly to discuss the ramifications of the events across the border in Kyrgyzstan. On neweurasia, Leila took up the same topic and said that images of the perpetual crisis in Kyrgyzstan had previously been used on Kazakh television: In a disguised election campaign, Kazakh television showed the riots in Paris, the Kyrgyz revolution, followed by peaceful pictures of Kazakhstan reality. Maybe it helped really. [...]

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/kyrgyzstan-protests-worry-kazakhstan-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1741 Matt Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:44:27 +0000 http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/?p=198#comment-1741 Looks like things are going to get a lot worse for Kazakhstan's reform movement. The Kyrgyz opposition seems to have performed some kind of velvet revolution by persuading enough of the government to join their ranks and by beginning the process of tweaking the constitution to make Bakiyev a mere figure-head. This is going to set off alarm bells in Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev will surely interpret this as a sign of what happens when you lose even the slightest control in a corrupt government - you're betrayed by everyone and the opposition is able to exploit your weaknesses. Looks like things are going to get a lot worse for Kazakhstan’s reform movement. The Kyrgyz opposition seems to have performed some kind of velvet revolution by persuading enough of the government to join their ranks and by beginning the process of tweaking the constitution to make Bakiyev a mere figure-head. This is going to set off alarm bells in Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev will surely interpret this as a sign of what happens when you lose even the slightest control in a corrupt government – you’re betrayed by everyone and the opposition is able to exploit your weaknesses.

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