Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED):     With Kyrgyzstan in the throes of a humanitarian crisis, Miriam Lanskoy, the National Endowment for Democracy’s senior program officer for Central Asia and the Caucasus, places the events in the context of the recent regime change in Bishkek, and suggests that the outcome of current events will have important consequences for democratic prospects in authoritarian

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Kyrgyzstan crisis threatens democratic prospects of new government – and autocratic region