By Barry WoodPutin rules like a Czar, deeply conservative, fearful of unrest, placing stability above all else. In August 1991, reporter David Remnick stood in the crowd outside the Russian parliament when Boris Yeltsin mounted a tank to denounce an attempted coup that would have brought back communism. On that day, as Remnick writes in his 1994 book Lenin’s Tomb, “Muscovites were prepared to die for democratic principles.”
Twenty-seven years later, democratic principles are in short supply. Russians vote for president on March 18th in an election that is neither free nor fair. The incumbent president controls his nation’s media …read more
Source: The Globalist
