9th February 2004, 4:58 PM
Oxymoron at work... these top two are just about the latest incident.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/...index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/04/us.yukos/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/...index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...index.html
Putin is ... not exactly the most democratic ruler around?
Oh, and did I mention that he has no real opposition for the upcoming election?
His party won the last parliamentary (Duma) election, too... perfectly shocking considering he controls all the major media outlets and they put his party in a very good light...
I'm not saying Putin had something to do with this, it easily could have been the Mafia, but either way Russian democracy is not in good shape at all.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/...index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/...index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/04/us.yukos/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/...index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...index.html
Putin is ... not exactly the most democratic ruler around?
Oh, and did I mention that he has no real opposition for the upcoming election?
His party won the last parliamentary (Duma) election, too... perfectly shocking considering he controls all the major media outlets and they put his party in a very good light...
I'm not saying Putin had something to do with this, it easily could have been the Mafia, but either way Russian democracy is not in good shape at all.