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The afterlife of Putinism

February 13, 2008

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THERE is no reason to doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin's longtime protege and designated successor, Dmitry Medvedev, will win the presidential election scheduled for March 2. Still, the principled refusal of European election monitors to send observers to Russia later this month was a symbolic gesture worth making. The Kremlin's conspiratorial innuendos about a Western plot to weaken the ... (Full article: 448 words)

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