RUSSIA: YAVLINSKY CRITICIZES 'QUASI-DEMOCRACY,' MEDIA POLICY.(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: January 14, 2002 | Copyright information

The political system existing in Russia is "quasi-democratic, as power in the country is still in the hands of the Soviet elite," "Izvestiya" quoted Yabloko leader Grigorii Yavlinsky as saying on 17 December. Many of Putin's actions are helping to preserve the Russian state, but at the same time they are creating an authoritarian "corporative" state, according to Yavlinsky. The best illustration of this theory is Putin's policy toward ...

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