As I end my two weeks here as a guest blogger, with events turning dramatic in Kyrgyzstan, the revolution that didn’t happen is fizzling out in Moldova. (See today’s RFE/RL Newsline, which unusually has no less than five stories from the forgotten republic.)
Those few of you who have been following the story may recall [...]

As you probably know, there appears to have been a peaceful revolution in Kyrgyzystan.
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BBC backgrounder on the recent events
For general information on Kyrgyzustan, Wikipedia.
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Some original, not too informed analysis: The last years peaceful revoutions have all happened in countries with some democratic features, not straight out dictatorships. Kyrgyzystan was always [...]

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I often marvel at the absurdities of the debate around the EU’s economic agenda.
Take, for instance, this pithy summary of Sunday’s meeting from EurActiv:
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The German newspaper whose web site really could be better organized has a pretty good run-down on the latest from Schleswig-Holstein, which seems set on proving Palmerston’s adage for the 21st century.

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Yes, I know sometimes it seems as though my job here at AFoE is to lower the high-minded tone with discussion of inanities, but there’s another interesting story about the Eurovision Song Contest today, namely that Lebanon - who were intending to make their first entry into the competition this year - have now withdrawn [...]

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Apparently, lifting the embargo on selling arms to China is high on the agenda for the meeting of the EU foreign ministers next week.
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Everybody ready for neo-con development politics?
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