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Kremlin Overkill: Why Putin's entry into party politics is the beginning of the end of Russian facade democracy

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As a result of Putin's direct participation in the Kremlin-manipulated political process and Russia's resulting return to a de facto one-party system, the Russian electoral process has been reduced to a manifestly formal procedure. Published in the English version of the Kyiv weekly "Zerkalo nedeli [Mirror of the Week]," No. 38(667) 13-19 October 2007.
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============================================================================== Andreas Umland, CertTransl (Leipzig), MA (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge). Visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution (more...)
 
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