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Monday, January 17, 2011

Tunis: desperate revolt of frustrated poor or the jasmine revolution?



Villa of the fled President is burning away just fine


Recent color revolution — this time the Tunisian one — has already been dubbed the jasmine one and has been considered to be yet another democratic victory. Commentators tend to think that Tunisians have demonstrated their urge for democracy and disproved a thought that Arabs can exist only under the rough authoritarian regime. I have a completely different opinion about that.