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February 8, 2012

Russia's Potemkin Democracy

Anne Applebaum, Washington Post

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'Swift implementation of democratic reforms' is definitely an idea whose time has come - in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as Damascus and Aleppo.

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TAGGED: Russia, Syria, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, Sergei Lavrov

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