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Article: Russia's Knockoff Democracy - New York Times
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- December 16, 2007
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MOSCOW THE Russian people, Dostoyevsky once said, believe so fervently in an all-powerful czar that this ideal "is bound to influence the whole future course of our history." And so it was that the heir to this tradition, President Vladimir V. Putin, went before the cameras last week to show that he had in fact broken with the old ways and was as progressive as any leader in the West.The scene, though, left a different impression.Heads of four political parties (supposedly independent, but all creatures of the Kremlin) sat before Mr. Putin and revealed to him their choice for president. Mr. Putin accepted the decision (though he himself had clearly made it). He praised the candidate ...
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