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Mail Call: What Putin Wants.(The World According to Alan Greenspan)(Letters)

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Our July 23 story on the dictatorship in Russia drew varied responses from readers. One wrote, "Like all Russian leaders, Vladimir Putin seeks absolute power." Another said, "He wants respect for Russia."

The Rise of a Russian Dictator

I was amazed by your July 23 cover story, "The Tyrant's Turn." We obviously haven't learned from history, so time and time again we make the mistake of second-guessing other cultures and assume that there is a lingering longing for our values. Just as Iraq and Afghanistan are not (and never will be) democracies in the Western sense of the word, the same is true for Russia. The fact of officially denationalizing certain ...

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