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Caricatures are fraternal
Hot points of the CIS
Caricatures are fraternal. Social and political crises, which shook the CIS countries all of 2010, is both a terrible and grotesque reflection of the processes taking place in Russia. Or those that can only happen. Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine - The New Times all year carefully peered into these mirrors 
The question of the formation of the new government remained open from October, when elections to the new parliament were held in the republic, which now plays a key role in the political life of the country: in a referendum on June 27, most residents voted for a new constitution and the transition from presidential to parliamentary form. This was preceded by the fall of the Kurmanbek Bakiev regime during the “April Revolution” and terrible pogroms in the south of the country, in Osha and Jalal-Abad, organized, judging by the numerous evidence, from the closest encirclement of the ousted president, including his son Maxim Bakiev.
The June nightmare of the massacre between the Uzbeks and the Kyrgyz in the south of the country, according to official figures, took away the lives of 200 people, according to unofficial, more believable, died more than two thousand. The UN counted 275 thousand refugees (of which 80 thousand went to the territory of Uzbekistan), independent observers - almost twice as much. “In our entire entrance, I was left alone, in the neighboring one - only one family. The rest everyone ran away, ”says Osh lawyer Arsen Ambaryan. He lives in the Cheremushka microdistrict, which became the epicenter of the conflict: “Today he decided to leave the house. I walked a little. A terrible sight. Ghost city. " Things are a little better in Jalal-Abad: the objects of trade, catering, entertainment were almost completely destroyed, the buildings of the regional state company, customs, and some schools were burned. But the south of Kyrgyzstan was always poorer than the North. And this factor is the basis of disagreements between the two parts of the country. Now the south has become even poorer and very far from its reconciliation with the north.
Opponents of Ata Zhurnaya burn documentation after an attack on the party’s office in Bishkek (the picture was taken on the eve of the parliamentary elections, October 10). My, do not understand your excitement in the 1990s in Osh with the help of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and the almost total replacement of party and police leaders from among the Kyrgyz on Russian-speaking. Now there are almost no Russian -speaking personnel in the police and the authorities, and the Big Brother refused to send the troops. So quickly suppressing the conflict and drive it underground will not work.
“In the past 20 years, the problems of interethnic relations in the Kyrgyz south did not resolve at all,” the head of the public fund “For International Tolerance” of Raya Kadyrov, complains in a conversation with The New Times. “The calls of the provocateurs lay on fertile ground.” Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan - 1 million 200 thousand people, almost 20 % of the population of the republic. Most live in Jalal-Abad and Osh regions. At the same time, the Uzbeks are in no way represented in the authorities of the supreme power. They have not a single more or less significant post in state administrations of regions, districts, cities. The Uzbeks neatly hinted: it would be nice to give a national minority at least one ministerial post. What did you always receive one answer: can you imagine that Kyrgyz will receive the post of minister in Uzbekistan?
The third force of the conflict provoked the “third force”, namely, the overthrown President of Bakiev and his environment, assure the new authorities. Many in the republic agree with this. Raya Kadyrov says: “The representatives of our organization at the very beginning of the conflict heard scraps of conversations in Osh: in one part of the city, a person in the crowd tells his interlocutor on a cell phone:“ When will you bring the promised cargo? We are tired of throwing stones! " The conversation was probably about weapons. And in another part of the city they recorded such a conversation: “You said that Tokmak will rise (a city in the north of Kyrgyzstan, 60 km from Bishkek, where many Uzbeks live. - The New Times)?!” So, it was planned to provoke clashes in the north. ” But what, for example, says the nameless eyewitness of the Osh pogroms, whose letter diverged on the Internet: “I was convinced that most pogromers were organized into groups from 500 to 2000 bastards armed to the teeth. Ahead of large groups was usually a combat vehicle of infantry (BMP), followed by people armed with machine guns, and then a crowd with knives, sticks and reinforcement. Mahali (areas of compact residence of the Uzbeks), such as, for example, Shahit Tepa, took large groups. Small attacked smaller areas. Following Osh, Jalal-Abad had to fall. ”
The myth of peacekeepers can Kyrgyz and Uzbeks forget the June nightmare? After all, even now, the Uzbek population of Osh is afraid to leave his Mahalley for humanitarian aid. The Uzbeks categorically refuse to receive medical care from the Kyrgyz doctors. And the inhabitants of Nariman, one of the suburban Osh villages mainly with the Uzbek population, still do not allow government representatives and shoot at all moving objects.
Will people forgive each other with all the evil that reigned in two cities of the Kyrgyz south for almost a week? Question.
UKRAINE 
“This resembles absurdity and demonstrates how the current president of Ukraine is dealt with the opposition,” said Tymoshenko, who does not admit his guilt. No matter what the story ends with the Ukrainian “Iron Lady” is already clear: Viktor Yanukovych actively reproaches the political landscape. The dominant was the October decision of the Constitutional Court on the recognition of the “illegal” reform of the Basic Law in December 2004. Ukraine once returned to the time of Leonid Kuchma, again becoming the presidential republic. With the help of KS, Yanukovych, he had brought into life his desire for “strong power”, without which, they say, unpopular reforms would not go.
The face of the nation in the Crimean schools is studied by the presidential program “Ukraine for people”, and in kindergartens in the Luhansk region, preschoolers sing the song “Uncle Vitya Yanukovych, the wise president ...” One year of stay of the Party of Regions in the presidential chair is enough for all state institutions, the main streets of large and small cities of Ukraine bloomed with portraits in the later epoch Brezhnev. Yanukovych with oil, inlapped with amber, is sold in Zhytomyr to $ 200, in Kyiv - $ 500. Its portraits are hung along the highways and, of course, in power offices. The most smiling Yanukovych suddenly appeared in the government of the government - where there were no images of the country's leaders before. In the near future, portraits of the president should appear on the pages of school textbooks and official publications. It is possible that Yanukovych will appear on them in a national embroidery - such an image, according to presidential political strategists, will add Ukrainian to the president. And on the draft of the new Tax Code, which is distributed for studying all members of the government and parliamentarians, the photo of Yanukovych has already been placed.
After the inauguration of Yanukovych, his portraits with someone’s light hand began to attribute miraculous power-they supposedly cure all diseases, including impotence. Today, the presidential face can be found on fences, and on watermelons, in bronze and marble ...
Back to the USSR? “The Yanukovych team seeks to create a halo of an outstanding statesman around him, but clearly overdoing,” Victoria Syumar, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Mass media, notes in a conversation with The New Times. More recently, Yanukovych had another nickname - Secretary General. The fault of the whole curiosity that happened during the meeting of Yanukovych in Kyiv in early July with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: the Ukrainian president stubbornly called it the "General Secretary". “The population, especially the inhabitants of Central and Western Ukraine, has recently been noticeably annoyed by the behavior of new authorities. Many are concerned about the rollback of Ukraine "Back, in the USSR." But on the other hand, many Ukrainians understand: there is no high -quality alternative to the Viktor Yanukovych team in the country now, ”says Victoria Syumar.
Therefore, the people so far only hacks power and compose ditties and jokes about it. The most common: "In Ukraine, there cannot be a cult of the President’s personality - there is not enough personality."