{"id":394,"date":"2005-03-29T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/29\/aliddlebitofdemocracy-ladiesangennlemen\/"},"modified":"2005-03-29T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T00:01:00","slug":"aliddlebitofdemocracy-ladiesangennlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/aliddlebitofdemocracy-ladiesangennlemen\/","title":{"rendered":"AliddlebitofDemocracy, ladiesangennlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following The Zimbabwean<\/a>‘s online launch (anticipating Thursdays’s doubtless dodgy elections) comes This is Zimbabwe<\/a>, a bog from the Sokwanele<\/a> opposition civic action support group. Worth a look – although sadly no comment facility up at the moment. (Hat tip Cabalamat Journal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, via Siberian Light<\/a>, The Agonist has Some Things You Need to Know About Kyrgyzstan<\/a>. Siberian Light also points to a Tulip FAQ<\/a> and part 2, a Kyrgyz who’s who<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FAQ in turn points to a couple of blogs from Kyrgyzstan – Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan<\/a> and Aileyinastan<\/a> – although the latter is now being updated from Germany. The first blog has links to a number of others from Peace Corps volunteers although, unlike with Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, there don’t appear to be any native Kyrgyz bloggers writing in English at the moment. Nonetheless, Registan.net<\/a> (the blog formerly known as The Argus) continues to do a great job of keeping track of everything.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Publius Pundit asks why there is no attention being paid to vote-rigging in Tajikistan<\/a>, and points in the direction of an article by a resident<\/a> outlining the background to the disputed elections there which, as of yet, have received scant attention from pretty much anyone outside the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following The Zimbabwean‘s online launch (anticipating Thursdays’s doubtless dodgy elections) comes This is Zimbabwe, a bog from the Sokwanele opposition civic action support group. Worth a look – although sadly no comment facility up at the moment. (Hat tip Cabalamat … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}