BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan votes in a presidential election on Sunday that is being closely fought between a protege of the outgoing president and an opposition leader, testing stability in a country where two previous leaders were ousted in violent riots.
The mainly Muslim ex-Soviet state of six million people stands out from its neighbours, mostly run by autocrats, in having a boisterous democracy that produces sometimes chaotic changes of leadership.
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