September 12, 2011

Putin's Russia: Back in the USSR?

The Economist, The Economist

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The Soviet Union was undermined by stagnation and a sense of hopelessness. Is the same thing happening again?

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TAGGED: Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin, Russia

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