Paul Goble
New York, December 29 – Three articles in the Moscow media today – one by Levada Center director Lev Gudkov, a second on the Liberty.ru site, and a third by the editors of “Nezavisimaya gazeta” – show that Russian popular attitudes are returning to those of the 1990s but that Russian opposition figures have proved unable to exploit that reality.
And that combination, all three suggest, may allow both the Russian people and the Russian powers that be to survive the current crisis, but it will not, all three make clear, allow Russia to develop as a democracy and thus prevent a further degeneration of its political and social system.
Writing in today’s “Vedomosti,” Gudkov argues that “the current crisis shows that the political system established in the last decade in Russia is restraining ...
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Daghestani President Mukhu Aliev.
Russian authorities detaining activists in Moscow protesting the Derbent elections.
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