A Russian Made Disaster in Kyrgyzstan

By Daniel Greenfield Monday, June 14, 2010

The violence unleashed in Kyrgyzstan is being spun as ethnic rioting. The reality is a good deal more complex, and the blame can be laid directly at Russia’s door.

Russia’s coup against the Bakiyev government which took power in the Tulip Revolution leveraged Uzbek separatists in the Osh Province to suppress Kyrgiz nationalist supporters of Bakiyev. Russia had been trying for a while to force out Manas Air Base, a US air force base that serves as a vital link to US forces in Afghanistan. Russia tolerated Bakiyev, so long as he was against the US base. But once Bakiyev made a deal with the United States, and began exploring an energy deal with China that might have ended Russian leverage over the country, Putin pulled off a coup during Obama’s nuclear arms reduction treaty signing with Medvedev, a true “Godfather” moment.

На днях в столице Киргизии состоялось объединение оппозиции получившее название "Объединенное Народное Движение". В состав ОНД вошли 11 оппозиционных организаций, в том числе, такие влиятельные партии как «Ата-Мекен», «Ак-Шумкар», «СДПК» и «Жаны Кыргызстан». Руководить новой организацией будет Национальный совет и Политбюро, в состав которых войдут представители всех партий-участников.