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Titolo: Accidenti una rivoluzione senza colori

Pare, dico pare, che questa volta non ci sia dietro ne CIA, ne Soros.
Il nostro leader dei tulipani ha privatizzato energia elettrica e
altre utilities.
Tariffe schizzate in alto, adesso rivolta.
Un articolo di due mesi fa.
Bakiyev faces protests over fuel bills hike
By Timur Toktonaliev
Sharp increases in the price of electricity and central heating have
left many in Kyrgyzstan struggling to survive. The price for
electricity has already doubled this year and the cost of central
heating has shot up by 500%.
The Kyrgyz government says it has been forced to cut subsidies and
pass on the real cost of utilities to the consumer so as to cope with
the effects of the world economic crisis and to build up funds to
invest in the energy sector. Officials say it costs more to generate
electricity and provide hot water than business and domestic customers
pay. The increases match the cost price, they say.
Consumers are less than enamored of the scheme. A straw poll
of 63 people conducted by Institute of War and Peace Reporting on the
streets of Bishkek produced a unanimously negative response.
"What have I got to be happy about?" said a female pensioner who lives
on her own. "I get 2,500 soms [US$56] a month ... I don't have enough
to live on. And now they've added on 130 soms and I'll have to pay 350
soms [monthly] for hot water."
Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov said he was aware of how unpopular the
move had been. "Today, every family in Kyrgyzstan is cursing Usenov's
government because it introduced radical measure for increasing
tariffs," the prime minister acknowledged at a meeting in the energy
ministry on January 21.
Gulbayra Tynaeva, a 50-year old single mother and shopworker in
Bishkek, is one of many people struggling even harder to make ends
meet. Her bill for heating and electricity in January was the
equivalent of $40, compared with her previous monthly bills of around
$18. She also has to pay for gas, water and phone from a monthly
salary of $134, about the national average. After deducting other
expenses such as her son's school fees and travel, she is left with
around $29 to buy food.
"I buy only the most basic stuff and even that's expensive - potatoes,
sugar, flour and oil," said Tynaeva, adding that the family had not
eaten meat for two months. "Do we have to die of starvation?"
To soften the blow, groups identified as vulnerable such as pensioners
and public sector workers - who earn less than the monthly average -
will receive payments from a $60 million government fund. However, the
compensation payments work out at just $4 a month over the four winter
months to help with heating costs.
A Bishkek resident on a $56 monthly pension said the money was simply
not enough. After paying her bills, she said she had $15 left. "You
just about have to go out and start begging," she said.
Ibragim Junusov, a member of parliament from the ruling Ak Jol party,
says the government is considering allowing pensioners and businesses
to spread their winter electricity payments over the whole year.
Businesses have also felt the impact of electricity price increases
and have decided to pass them on to customers from February.
"Electricity costs account for 8% of the cost of the product," said a
bakery owner who gave her first name as Gulbara. She said she held
prices down in January, but will now have to raise them to avoid going
into the red.
Energy expert Jamakadyr Akeneev predicts "living standards will
decline and discontent will rise".
Opposition parties have vowed to campaign against the government's
decision.
Azimbek Beknazarov, the leader of the opposition alliance United
People's Movement (UPM), criticized the government for introducing the
increases without public consultation, and said opposition groups
would do all that they can to reverse the decision.
"I meet a lot of ordinary people, particularly in the villages, who
say they aren't going to pay and will just steal electricity," he
said.
Beknazarov recalled that one of the demands in the March 2005 "Tulip
Revolution", when Askar Akaev was ousted as president by a popular
uprising and the present head of state, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, came to
power, was that he would reduce utility rates and provide the entire
population with electricity.
"President Bakiev has not done this," he said. "On the contrary, by
privatizing the energy sector and increasing prices, he is doing what
Akaev didn't have time to do."
Opposition parties are planning to make the price rises one of the
main talking-points of an assembly they plan to hold on March 17.
Participants are expected to write to the Kyrgyz president demanding
that this and other issues be addressed. If there is no response, the
UPM, the main opposition bloc, says it will stage public protests.
Timur Toktonaliev is an IWPR-trained journalist in Kyrgyzstan.

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mi piace il bianco e nero di mattina. Odora di vittoria komunista.

 mi piace il bianco e nero di mattina. Odora di vittoria komunista.
delirium?