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October 29, 2012

Putin's Russia: Back in the USSR

The Guardian, The Guardian

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The president's crackdown will do nothing to tackle the source of his problems: a corrupt and unreformable system of government.

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TAGGED: USSR, Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin, Russia

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