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Putin Presiding Over Centralized Feudal State, THE MOSCOW TIMES

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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20040224
Author:Sergei Dorenko

Sergei Dorenko
The Moscow Times (Russia)
02-24-2004
URL: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
The naturalist and writer Ernest Thompson Seton ascribed human
thoughts to the mustang; James Fenimore Cooper portrayed his Leatherstocking
as a fashionable gentleman; and today Western intellectuals attempt to
judge how far Russia has progressed down the path of democracy during Vladimir
Putin's first term as president. Of them all, Seton was closest to the
mark.
The problem arises when stock phrases and concepts are applied out of
context. There is an old Soviet joke about a Chukchi man in the northern
tundra ...

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