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When Vladimir Putin plucked Dmitry Medvedev from obscurity in 2007 to succeed him as president of Russia, the consensus opinion was that Medvedev would be nothing more than a lap dog doing Putin’s bidding until Putin could resume his role as president in 2012. (The Russian Constitution provides that no president can serve more than… Read more.
[T]he US and EU have been effectively checkmated. Because, despite Saakashvili’s bellicose rhetoric about dire consequences if Putin does not retreat from his “large-scale military aggression” in Georgia, he knows that neither he nor his Western allies dares lift a finger to back up their words with action. And this fact is only reinforced by the U.S.… Read more.
For years, I’ve warned about the Putinization of Russia — a calculated campaign by Vladimir Putin to dismantle the democratic reforms championed by his predecessors. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll recognize this as the work of a neo-Stalinist president bent on reversing the strides made by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev, in a… Read more.
