I have been thinking of a joke that I was told after i came back from Talas where I monitored elections and wanted to share it for two reasons.  First, it will be two months tomorrow since we had parliamentary elections and yet the Central Election Comission has still not published the official election results.  Second, I want to add some fun to this blog, which is stuffed with seriousness so far

So here is the joke: “‘Elections were clear and transparent,’ stated the chiefs of the CIS and the SCO election monitoring missions at their press conferences. Apparently, they were talking about vodka…” (anonymous author)