dictators – The Other Russia http://www.theotherrussia.org News from the Coalition for Democracy in Russia Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:33:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 Putin Keeping Good Company http://www.theotherrussia.org/2009/01/30/putin-keeping-good-company/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:06:27 +0000 http://www.theotherrussia.org/?p=1839 It may come a few years too late, but the mainstream western media is finally acknowledging what their elected leaders still prefer to ignore: Vladimir Putin is no more a democratically elected leader than Robert Mugabe or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And only rarely does the press bother to keep up the charade that Dmitri Medvedev is in charge in Russia. (As Garry Kasparov put it at a recent address in Washington DC, “If Obama looks into Medvedev’s eyes he will see… Putin!”)

The latest example comes from “The Daily Beast,” a major new news site, with a short piece on how various despot foreign leaders have responded to Barack Obama’s ascension to the US presidency.

The Daily Beast: Putin keeping good company

The Daily Beast: Putin keeping good company

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