Vladimir M. Lysenko was formerly co-chair of the Republican Party of Russia and was elected in December 1993 as a deputy to the State Duma as a member of the Yabloko coalition.
The March 2005 “Tulip Revolution” that toppled President Askar Akeyev is often grouped with the “color revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine, but in many ways the Kyrgyz case was unique.
The Putin regime, having faced its first real challenge in the form of mass protests after the 2011 Duma elections, is responding with a series of laws intended to intimidate…
