If you think Texas is murky...try Kazahkstan

by Graham Email

Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article345496.ece

...where the second leading opposition figure in several months has been found dead in highly suspicious circumstances.
At the risk of sounding glib, it seems that any country with a name ending in 'stan' always has challenges when it comes to concepts like stable representative government, democracy, objective rule of law etc.