[lbo-talk] Kazakhstan's Gucci revolution

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 18:58:36 PST 2005


I'll have a GooChy shoe tree please...

Courtesy Google News Alerts: Central Asia

<...> You've got to hand it to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the "democratically" elected president of Kazakhstan. The revolution he feared would come to his country, as in so many other former Soviet republics recently, has come and gone. Nazarbayev didn't need guns for the battle. He won it by letting a Gucci clothing store open in what was once the land of Genghis Khan. Along with Gucci came Baskin-Robbins ice cream, a Subaru dealership and sushi restaurants.

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