#power-consolidation

#power-consolidation

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov dismissed Kamchybek Tashiev as chairman of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) on February 10 and appointed Jumgalbek Shabdanbekov as acting chairman amid rising political tensions in the Central Asian nation. Tashiev, a longtime political ally of Japarov, is currently undergoing medical treatment in Munich, Germany, according to the Kyrgyz Embassy there. Sources close to Tashiev told RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service that the dismissal "was completely unexpected," adding that he "heard this news while receiving medical treatment."

An unseen force is destroying the air and the seasons; at the same time, money's going bad, and no one knows why. Power is flowing away from governments, and pooling in the offices of theocrats, the coffers of conglomerates, the hands of mobs. Something is at work, very quietly, very subtly, says merchant Mustafa Bey, keeping a watchful eye on the Silk Roads from his seat in an Aleppo cafe.

"Maggie Haberman indicated that President Trump often declares national emergencies without legitimate evidence, suggesting it's a strategy to expand his powers."