Alexey Semyonov was IT advisor of the Kyrgyz government on a number of projects and now is president of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes civil society and democratic development in the former Soviet Union
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Published in: oDRSpring: coming soon to Central Asia?
All across the world, authoritarian governments are crashing, and new forms of democratic and term-limited regimes...
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Published in: oDRThe road to electoral perfection in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan’s October parliamentary elections revealed a number of teething problems in law and systems, write Alexey...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s referendum brings a flicker of hope
The new constitution which the Kyrgyz people voted in on 27 June 2010 seeks to break the presidential pattern of...
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Published in: oDRKickstarting the Kyrgyz economy
On 8 April 2010 Kyrgyzstan experienced its second revolution in five years. The corrupt regime of President Bakiev...