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Saturday, May 17, 2008 --- 69 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themoderatevoice/~3/292322215/
Pajamas Media has a must-read on the situation in Russia. A few excerpts:
Perhaps best known for throwing a glass of juice in the face of ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky during a debate on a TV talk show in 1995 (and getting away with it, at a time when Zhironvsky was at his most menacing), Boris Nemtsov has long been the golden boy of post-Soviet Russia, the country’s best imitation of JFK. Granted, even the actual JFK left much to be desired — so a Russian knock-off is hardly likely to save the world. But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is tsar — and a white paper he recently published assessing the accomplishments and failures of the Putin administration deserves close attention.
Ant is is a fascinating document indeed:
Despite his pretensions of courage and power, Putin is afraid of Nemtsov just the way the tsar feared Pushkin and the Politburo feared Solzhenitsyn. They’re afraid mere words will bring them down. And the only response they can come up with is crude repression.
Scholarly and mercilessly thorough, Nemtsov’s paper systematically dismantles the claimed achievements of the Putin regime and paints a picture of failure and looming disaster that is genuinely disturbing to read, not least because of the dispassionate and clinical tone that the author adopts. It is, in his own words, meant to be “a sober and realistic analysis of how our lives have changed during the years of Putin’s rul ... |
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