Another People's Revolt; First came the Rose revolution in Georgia, then the Orange Revolution in Kiev. Is it now time for Tulips?

Byline: Frank Brown (With Nadya Titova in Moscow and Eve Conant in Washington)

Another people power revolt has erupted in the former Soviet Union. The question now: who's next, and when? On a bright spring morning last Thursday in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, thousands of protesters, armed with sticks and stones, stormed the White House, the government's seat of power. Frightened riot police and officials were given safe passage out of the Soviet-era edifice before the crowd gleefully set to work sacking the place. When the victorious demonstrators left the building that ...

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