Elections: Rarer and Less Free
Elections: Rarer and Less Free
Author(s): Margarita AssenovaSubject(s): Politics
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Nursultan Nazarbaev; Emomali Rakhnonov; Kazakh President; Tajik President; Islam Karimov; Turkmen President; Saparmurat Niazov; Central Asian leaders; presidential elections
Summary/Abstract: Political freedom in Central Asia was already limited before the Georgian revolution. Since then, and with parliamentary elections looming in all five states, political freedoms are being squeezed again.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2004
- Issue No: 06/08
- Page Range: On Line
- Page Count: 1
- Language: English
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