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August 21, 2011

Russia Set Back Decades Under Putin

Nina Khrushcheva, Foreign Policy

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The march toward openness and democracy in the Soviet Union began under my great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, flowered under Mikhail Gorbachev, and has nearly been erased in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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