Winning by rigging in post-Soviet era

By: International Herald Tribune, November 16, 2005 BAKU, Azerbaijan Two years ago, when the government of Georgia collapsed during street protests against a tainted election, its fall energized pockets of revolutionary sentiment against the autocratic rulers who dominated the former Soviet Union. Then Ukraine fell amid similar outrage. And then Kyrgyzstan.

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