And while various people were dying, a nice little drama has been going on in Kyrgyzstan.

[conuly]

Look at all the articles....

It's been compared to Georgia (nation) and the Ukraine.

The opposition seized power maybe a week or two ago.

A date has been set for the new election.

There's power struggles all over the place.

Which wasn't resolved by trying to declare the new parliament legitimate.

Most recently, the ousted president has officially stepped down.

This is only a sampling of the most recent articles in this event, and I suspect most people were pretty much unaware of any of it.

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[emerlee.livejournal.com]

Scary. My cousin was supposed to go there in May for the Air Force, but then he got discharged. I didn't hear anything about this until now.

[conuly]

I've been paying vague attention to the CNN articles, since we *think* my grandfather's family may have been from there (we know he's from somewhere in the soon-to-be USSR, his last name is Kergis, and the family looked vaguely like people in that region), but they've been continually pushed down by Terri and then by the pope.