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: Instapundit.comTHE END OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY? The sentence of Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky this week is?
By Glenn Reynolds
THE END OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY? The sentence of Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky this week is a tragedy that signals Russia?s political corruption. “The arrest and sentencing of Khodorkovsky made it possible to complete the transformation of Russia into a controlled society with a permanent political leadership and a president for life (Putin). It is for this reason that Putin not only hates Khodorkovsky but, to a degree, fears him. Putin cannot abide the implicit challenge that Khodorkovsky at liberty would represent.”
Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).

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