Kyrgyz referendum may be Pyrrhic victory
The president has secured the changes he wanted but they do not advance his aims
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- Constitutional flux
- Greater democracy
- Key political changes
- Other reforms
- Judicial reform
- Conservative values
- Human rights
- Citizenship rights
- Political environmentalism
- No obvious game-plan
- Political acrimony
- Damage to stability
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_350.jpg "Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)")