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Quinton Maydaniuk

How Putin and his ex-KGB pals took over Russia's economy. - Sep. 9, 2008 - 1 views

money.cnn.com/...index.htm

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  • $1.3 trillion econom
  • found gathered at a lakeshore deep in the forest, trying to relax amid the upheaval of the new Russia.
  • Vladimir Putin, then head of external relations for the St. Petersburg mayor, was a member of the group.
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  • Vladimir Yakunin, who had revived a bank started by the Communist Party
  • how much they disliked the unfolding chaos of Boris Yeltsin's Russia.
  • 5 years later, many of these same men (and some of their closest friends) now run the country
  • Putin became President in 2000, thanks to President Yeltsin's unexpected resignation
  • ake group have risen to the hig
  • hest levels in Russian business and politics
  • tate-owned oil company
  • Railways.
  • largest company
  • While Putin, 55, stepped into the No. 2 role of Prime Minister, no one doubts that he has extended his regime.
  • swiftly to reassert the government's control over key sectors of the Russian economy,
  • flashy entrepreneurs who grew fabulously wealthy when Yeltsin liberalized the Russian economy
  • taken back an estimated $100 billion in assets held by private hands in the 1990s
  • Almost to a man, they served in the Soviet-era KGB
  • Among the top Russian bureaucrats and business leaders, more than one-quarter have their roots in the so-called power ministries of the government, of which the old KGB
  • started getting nervous.
  • Stories of Russian power plays have grown too numerous to dismiss
  • business leaders thrown in jail on bogus charges
  • ssets taken by dubious lawsuits,
  • partnerships with Russian companies suddenly turning into struggles over control
  • the invasion of Georgia
  • concerns have sent the Russian stock market plunging more than 30% since May
Taylor Weigel

Russia - democracy or not? - 0 views

www.realclearpolitics.com/...ruggling_democracy_111066.html

russian government democracy authoritarianism

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  • modern-day Russian authoritarianism
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      Taylor Weigel on 14 Mar 12
       
      Better than it used to be, but still not a democracy!
  • not the death of a free society but its long and agonizing birth
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      Taylor Weigel on 14 Mar 12
       
      good point for those arguing for Putin
Taylor Weigel

Protesters get Kremlin to look into vote fraud - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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  • demand a recount
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      Taylor Weigel on 14 Mar 12
       
      Putin destroying democracy - rigs elections.
  • government's corruption and inefficiency.
  • government would have to change if it wanted to remain in power.
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      Taylor Weigel on 14 Mar 12
       
      Will Putin change? Will Russia truly become more democratic, or will he continue to undercut the Russian democracy?
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  • crooks and thieves headed by Putin,
Trevor ZB

The Myth of a Russian Dictatorship | Hoover Institution - 1 views

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    Western analysts portray the Russian government as a virtual dictatorship. Hoover fellow Michael A. McFaul dissents. It would be an odd dictatorship, he argues, that found itself thwarted by a legislature or pushed around by a free press. In both Russia and the West, most analysts portray Russia's political system as an authoritarian regime.
Trevor ZB

Russian protests target election results and Putin | CTV News - 0 views

www.ctv.ca/...election-fraud-protests-111210

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  • Trevor ZB on 19 Mar 12
     
    Tens of thousands of people marched in downtown Moscow for three hours Saturday to protest against alleged electoral fraud by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in last weekend's parliamentary elections -- and to call for Putin to step down. The government-sanctioned demonstrations in 60 cities across the country marked the largest display of public discontent in post-Soviet Russia.
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