Kyrgyzstan - a real revolution in the offing

While the political players in Kyrgyzstan compete for central authority - in some form - it's not yet clear if the other characteristics of a real full-tilt bloody revolution are about to occur, i.e. a breakdown of state power and the formation of new political (or economic) ways of doing things. With some seemingly spontaneous land grabbing going on and local government splitting into two factions both seem possible. In Georgia and the Ukraine it was, at most, two out of three. New democratic institutions were set up and a new political class came to power but the state itself still functioned as before - without violent anarchy breaking out; hence the 'velvet' revolution name. In Kyrgyzstan, the state may be too fragile to survive too much reform more from EurasiaNet...