Russia, NO!!! No military troops in Kyrgyzstan! This is CIA trap.

I agree. If CSTO cannot speak with the same voice, Russia could well pass up the opportunity. And what is the Interim Government up to really? To start with, they are meeting all the time with special rep, Blake, who is all over the country, visiting refugee camps and correogaphing the presence. As far as I know, nobody in the interrim government is known for being pro-Russia. This illegitimate government dismissed Constitutional Court and the Parliament, and is asking in referendum for the right to change the Constitution! This sounds like a dictatorship --- whether benevolent or not. And the changes to the constitution are meant to LIMIT any party from having more then 50% in ParliamentIt is actually geared to have a permanent gridlock, the type of Parliament West loves, as you can influence easily any smaller faction to form majority and influence policy. There were very credible reports that the coup was actually organized by drug barons, gotten rich from trade in bountifull Afghan opium and heroin. It is also possible that the same ones are responsible for the obviously organized attack on minority. Witnesses claim that most of the assailants were heavily on drugs, and many of them had Kyrgiz army uniforms and arrived in army armoured carriers. Picture is not pretty, as the acting President is riding the back of the tiger. PS. Bogdanov, feel free to get in touch at prometheus.bianca@gmail.com

There is only free cheese in a mouse trap - so just walk on by! Let the fat UN mouse take it, after all it is fat enough to absorb the smack on the back.

I listened to a BBC report which laid this conflict at the feet of Bakiyev...Who is this guy? Is he pro-Russian or a NATO stooge? All the native Uzbeks & Krygyz spoke Russian to the reporters and I thought that this alone should encourage the Russians to take an interest in these people, especially if they are asking for Russian help. I can't believe Russia would sell out a part of its legacy. I hope this is a more confident Russia than the embarrassing, corrupt gangsters who abandoned Yugoslavia to a NATO lynch mob. Muhajedeen, NeoNazis & mercenaries all sponsored by NATO ripped Yugoslavia apart as Yeltsin rolled around in a drunken stupor...Which Russians are we dealing with here? The ones who sold out Yugoslavia? Or the ones who saved Ossetia?

Larry, Actually a very good question you ask! Are we in a Yugo Russia or an Ossetia Russia. Well I think you could have a huge debate on it. But from my personal perpective you have the same Russia. As I see it Russia will only help: 1. If it can do so 2. If helping would be better than not helping In the Yugoslavia case, we had no air corridor and we were militarily not up to the job, we would have had to make world war 3, to 'solve' the problem, which sort of fails the number 2 test. For South Ossetia, we had the direct military capability to act and without acting would mean the end of the South Ossetians, so 1 and 2 were fully satisfied. Now come to this conflict. Item 1 is fully satisfied, we are invited in and we have the capability to police the situation fully. But what about 2. If we go there, as Russia, there is a chance it will flame up and indeed a situation could arise, when Russia actually forms the target for the release of tensions. On top of that, the situation is not one, HOPEFULLY running to completion, so should stabilise. Yes this means nothing to the victims families of those who tragically have lost their lives, but causing less suffering in the future must be the aim. So in short, if the situation stabilises, or is converging to peace, we will not react, if it diverges, then we will go in! But lets all hope it doesn't come to that! and the local authorities can do the job they are supposed to do, with correct international support. Now I think, there are further valid questions, of why when we have a CSTO rapid reaction force, they were not going in very rapidly to secure the situation and prevent bloodshed, and I think this is what really needs addressing! If they can't go in fast, what is the point!