Nathan has got the news roundup for all of you. The parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan are on February 27. Luckily, that is a Sunday, which means I will have plenty of time to be posting on it as well. If there’s anything the tin-pot despots there know, it is when to pick a good day for rigged elections!

I don’t even think I have to say that Russia is backing the current regime.

UPDATE: More on the Rainbow of Revolutions from Aussiegirl. Here’s my favorite quote from the article she posted:

Moscow has been careful to appear impartial this time, holding talks with opposition leaders as well. But analysts say that it could be heading for another foreign policy failure. “In Ukraine, the West was like a skilful lover, while Russia was like an impotent rapist,” Andrei Piontkovsky, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, said. “I’m afraid Moscow is going to repeat the same mistakes in Kyrgyzstan.”

Personally, I’m not afraid of that happening at all!