After the post-election street contest has died down in Kyrgyzstan, the country looks to the near future - with a chance for open political competition or the suppression of democratic institutions.
In the wake of a dubious election in Kyrgyzstan, people have taken to the streets across the country in an attempt to force the political system to change. What will happen next?
The independentist inclinations of Catalonia, Scotland or Flanders define a dominant political zeitgeist in Europe – the dismantling of large territorial units. And this is why they will ultimately succeed.
If the current situation in the western Balkans were to be described using the vocabulary of a weather forecaster, the word unsettled would come immediately to mind. While at first