There’s nothing particularly worthy about this Simon Tisdall comment that appeared in British newspaper The Guardian today. But I did like these two quotes that he picked out and, frankly, that’s all the excuse I need.
Uzbekistan:
“Its the world’s last vacuum,” said Kalman Mizsei, regional director of the United Nations development programme.
Elections in Kazakhstan:
Mr Nazarbayev’s spokesman reassuringly said there was no need to rig the polls. “The president would win even if we sat around doing nothing,” he said.
The optimist in me likes to think this is because he is confident that the public will turn out to vote for Nazarbayev of their own free will. The cynic in me thinks it’s because he’s confident that local officials will turn out in huge numbers to stuff ballot boxes of their own free will.
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