Putin's fixation threatens Russia

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Although Vladimir Putin was chosen to ensure the survival of democracy in Russia, his obsession with centralized power is leading the country to political ruin
By Boris Berezovsky


I helped select Russian President Vladimir Putin to succeed the country's first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin. Because KGB/Mafia structures now rule Russia and manipulate the judicial system, it is assumed that Yeltsin wanted to hand-pick his successor in order to avoid future prosecution. But we who chose Putin were charged with finding someone to continue Yeltsin's reforms, not shield him and his family.
Indeed, Yeltsin was fearless, and sought not his personal survival, but the survival of the democratic idea that he introduced to Russia. Yet that idea is now under threat because of the successor we chose.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/07/23/2003264701

[Kagemusha]

1. To Russians, democracy and an empty sack is worth the sack.

And the sack is empty because of corruption, which no form of government is a cure for, including democracy.

What to do, what to do.