LENIN'S TOMB: Revolution in Kyrgyzstan: nothing to do with tulips.
The color revolutions "of the Bush era are not exactly in rude health. Ukraine, whose future was orange in December 2004, has returned to its post-Soviet leaders. Georgia had its Rose Revolution "in 2003, lost a fight he had with Russia, and his leadership has barely survived the subsequent protests and armed rebellion. Now, Kyrgyzstan overthrew the government has created by its "Tulip Revolution" five years ago. Kyrgyzstan's revolt has never been quite like the others, however.The leaders of the opposition, it is true, have been trained in the techniques of popular mobilization by right-wing activists in Georgia Liberty Institute. And they were extremely dependent on the support of U.S. institutions like USAID, and publishing support of Freedom House. But while the masses have played an essentially passive role in Georgia and Ukraine, mainly to support a struggle within the state apparatus, the opposition in Kyrgyzstan was to mobilize the people to revolt if she would take power. President Akayev was not going peacefully.They had to seize government buildings and police stations, what they did from southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad. They had to call mass meetings, just as it was wrong then to reduce the "revolt of tulips to external manipulation, so it would be wrong now to reduce the revolt against the government of Kurmanbek Bakiev to" long arm of Moscow. "The Russian government has certainly been agitating against it since Bakiyev refused to host a Russian military base while hosting a U.S. base.An immediate source of the rebellion was the high prices of energy caused by Russia's decision to impose new import has been growing support from Russia, Interfax appearing on to denounce the government of "stealing our revolution." Now, she thanks them for helping to "expose" the "criminal, nepotism" Bakiyev regime....
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