By bne IntelIiNews What is unfolding in Kyrgyzstan “offers a worrisome example of democracy’s global retreat and the smothering of press freedom”, The Washington Post’s editorial board wrote on January 4 in an opinion piece. The newspaper cautioned: “Central Asia has hardly been fertile ground for democracy in the three decades since the Soviet Union collapsed. For the most part, potentates and despots have ruled the region. The small, landlocked nation of Kyrgyzstan was an exception. Though it suffered endemic corruption and experienced waves of popular unrest, its citizens enjoyed an unusual…