Kyrgyzstan Elections: Parliament Full of Oligarchs in the Eye of the Storm

... chose to prop up their representation in parliament, the best scenario lying in a coalition-based majority between the SDPK and Kyrgyzstan Party. Costly by local standards, the elections were won only by political entities structured along the patronage lines of partially or fully criminal capital, which ... ... government that will face complicated challenges generated by the mounting socio-economic crisis caused by weaker currencies of the EEU countries, declining import and export operations (respectively by three and 22 percent), and reduced remittances from labor ...