Posted by
Reeson on Monday, March 12, 2007 7:42:35 PM
This is a great piece from the American Enterprise Institute. Russia has struggled with efforts to become a democracy, and the people have become disillusioned. Putin is a former KGB guy who is consolidating power and setting up the next Presidential election so that he will still wield a lot of power.
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25742/pub_detail.asp