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President Rasul Ershatov and the Kurkhazian Liberation Movement
By Asygul Yerbolova, Junior Journalist
Hailing from the pastoral plains of the Great Kurkhazian Northeast, Rasul Ershatov broke with convention last year when he, a General of the Kurkhazian Republican Army, abandoned the strictly conservative 'Eternal Horde' political movement in favor of an unusual and unheard of political clique: the Kurkhazian Liberation Movement or KLM. Resembling an irregular militia, KLM has taken advantage of highways and rail to "brigade" democratic demonstrations of rival movements. In Kurkhazia, where democratic conventions are held as often as weddings or funerals in small towns and large cities to decide matters of public importance, decisions are decided by public headcounts or in "beading tents" where colored beads are deposited one at a time in boxes to determine a candidate or issue.
Whether public or anonymous there is one constant presence in Kurkhazian Kurultai (democracy): armed intimidation. As historically when Kurkish Hordes elected warlords, military officers muster their troops to act as a physical presence before important votes to guarantee the result. This stranglehold from the Kurkhazian Army on democracy was naturally released however during the Great War when these meddling officers and their troops were actively engaged or entrenched opposite of the Tarusan Empire. In their stead an alternative democratic machine arrived: KLM, whose funding and precise origins remain difficult to ascertain.
Previous investigations by the Free Beacon have suggested that KLM was founded and propagated by the Achmedenov Mob, whose leader Marlen Achmedenov was recently pardoned by President Ershatov for dodging the draft and evading police throughout the war. Our investigators further believe that, at least at first, it was Achmedenov's thugs that intimidated the Kaliga Kurultai into accepting the Empire of Tarusa's white peace offer. A day later General Ershatov resigned his post and rapidly returned to the nation's capital to begin his unprecedented climb to civil power.
KLM organizes itself as an informal if-not alternative military structure, complete with Liberation Officers, Cadets, and Commandos. All that seems to be missing from both Ershatov and KLM is a consistent ideology beyond growth and self-preservation against the Eternal Horde. On one day Ershatov can be quoted as being for the homosexual liberty reforms taking place in Kaliga, yet on the next day he is front and center with KLM blocking such reforms at conventions elsewhere in the country. Critics posit that Ershatov is merely taking advantage of the technological culture lag that still exists in Kurkhazia where villages and entire regions of the country are rarely reached by newspapers or radio stations, and that when KLM shapeshifts from town to town they are none the wiser. As the nation modernizes and citizens gain private radio access President Ershatov will be forced to develop a more consistent nationwide platform if he hopes to maintain a grip on power.
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President Rasul Ershatov and the Kurkhazian Liberation Movement
By Asygul Yerbolova, Junior Journalist
Hailing from the pastoral plains of the Great Kurkhazian Northeast, Rasul Ershatov broke with convention last year when he, a General of the Kurkhazian Republican Army, abandoned the strictly conservative 'Eternal Horde' political movement in favor of an unusual and unheard of political clique: the Kurkhazian Liberation Movement or KLM. Resembling an irregular militia, KLM has taken advantage of highways and rail to "brigade" democratic demonstrations of rival movements. In Kurkhazia, where democratic conventions are held as often as weddings or funerals in small towns and large cities to decide matters of public importance, decisions are decided by public headcounts or in "beading tents" where colored beads are deposited one at a time in boxes to determine a candidate or issue.
Whether public or anonymous there is one constant presence in Kurkhazian Kurultai (democracy): armed intimidation. As historically when Kurkish Hordes elected warlords, military officers muster their troops to act as a physical presence before important votes to guarantee the result. This stranglehold from the Kurkhazian Army on democracy was naturally released however during the Great War when these meddling officers and their troops were actively engaged or entrenched opposite of the Tarusan Empire. In their stead an alternative democratic machine arrived: KLM, whose funding and precise origins remain difficult to ascertain.
Previous investigations by the Free Beacon have suggested that KLM was founded and propagated by the Achmedenov Mob, whose leader Marlen Achmedenov was recently pardoned by President Ershatov for dodging the draft and evading police throughout the war. Our investigators further believe that, at least at first, it was Achmedenov's thugs that intimidated the Kaliga Kurultai into accepting the Empire of Tarusa's white peace offer. A day later General Ershatov resigned his post and rapidly returned to the nation's capital to begin his unprecedented climb to civil power.
KLM organizes itself as an informal if-not alternative military structure, complete with Liberation Officers, Cadets, and Commandos. All that seems to be missing from both Ershatov and KLM is a consistent ideology beyond growth and self-preservation against the Eternal Horde. On one day Ershatov can be quoted as being for the homosexual liberty reforms taking place in Kaliga, yet on the next day he is front and center with KLM blocking such reforms at conventions elsewhere in the country. Critics posit that Ershatov is merely taking advantage of the technological culture lag that still exists in Kurkhazia where villages and entire regions of the country are rarely reached by newspapers or radio stations, and that when KLM shapeshifts from town to town they are none the wiser. As the nation modernizes and citizens gain private radio access President Ershatov will be forced to develop a more consistent nationwide platform if he hopes to maintain a grip on power.
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