There are people capable of being both objective, decent and critical of the Kremlin (like, oh, Jerome...)
I do appreciate them.
(And that quote about Putin and Khodorkhovski did jump at me too - and it is one I actually agree with) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Establishing full control over Yuganskneftegas-the company at the heart of Khodorkovsky's oil empire- included such episodes as the unsolved murder of the town mayor (and bitter adversary of Yukos) in 1998, who was gunned down on Khodorkovsky's birthday.
Isn't this the same kind of false dilemma that will guarantee that Putin (and assorted KGB) will be elected for the foreseeable future? Reducing the conceivable choices to former spooks and "former" gangsters?
BTW, La Russophobe considers Gaidar and the Locusts some sort of "move towards democracy"- 'nough said.... Where's Mark Ames when you need him...? The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
Yeah, I was confused about that too. I just figured I'd accidentally brain-washed him or something... Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
