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Once they had Potemkin villages in Russia, fake facades made to look from a distance like the real thing, and now they have Potemkin democracy.(The Week)(Brief article)
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Once they had Potemkin villages in Russia, fake facades made to look from a distance like the real thing, and now they have Potemkin democracy. In answer to the outward prescriptions of convention, there is a prime minister, a cabinet, the Duma or parliament, and elections, but the entire apparatus is rigged to suit the president's every wish and whim, more a conjuring trick than due process. Vladimir Putin was an unknown KGB officer until out of thin air President Boris Yeltsin picked him as his successor, in return for immunity from prosecution for corruption. Viktor Zubkov was an unknown former Communistparty official, a head of collective farms and until a few days ago an inspector of money laundering. Out of the same thin air, Putin picked him as prime minister, ...
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