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« on: April 02, 2013, 08:33:59 PM »
Back to the future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/world/europe/russia-new-law-allows-governors-to-be-appointed-undoing-reform.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0
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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2013, 08:36:56 PM »
So basically all the Medvedev-era reforms have now been undone.

Didn't take long.
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2013, 08:43:20 PM »
Quote from: Supersonic on April 02, 2013, 08:36:56 PM
So basically all the Medvedev-era reforms have now been undone.

Didn't take long.

Plus Medvedev's getting smeared in the Kremlin press again.
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2013, 08:46:27 PM »

This is off topic, but I never really understood why the phrase "back to the future" is used in that way in journalistic/political discussions.
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2013, 08:55:55 PM »
Putin's more authoritarian than most of the USSR leaders it seems.
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« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2013, 09:28:27 PM »
Quote from: I Can't Get That Sound You Make, Out Of My Head on April 02, 2013, 08:55:55 PM
Putin's more authoritarian than most of the USSR leaders it seems.

No
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« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2013, 10:32:08 PM »
He's close:

Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Putin
Lenin
Brezhnev
Andropov
Stalin

If you include transitional leaders he would certainly be, since they couldn't be more authoritarian because they were in a power struggle.
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2013, 12:25:01 PM »
Fingers crossed for a Russian revolution 2017.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2013, 12:30:02 PM »
Quote from: ModerateCoward on April 02, 2013, 10:32:08 PM
He's close:

Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Putin
Lenin
Brezhnev
Andropov
Stalin

srsly?
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2013, 12:37:32 PM »
If only Obama followed Putin's example and did the same in the USA.

(Just kidding!)
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2013, 08:14:41 PM »
 
Khrushchev started quite a bit of liberalization...
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2013, 09:01:00 PM »
Quote from: ModerateCoward on April 03, 2013, 08:14:41 PM
 
Khrushchev started quite a bit of liberalization...

Yeah, liberalization from Stalinism. Putin's Russia is still wayyyyy less authoritarian than Krushchev's
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« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2013, 02:32:36 AM »
Quote from: DC Al Fine on April 03, 2013, 09:01:00 PM
Quote from: ModerateCoward on April 03, 2013, 08:14:41 PM
 
Khrushchev started quite a bit of liberalization...

Yeah, liberalization from Stalinism. Putin's Russia is still wayyyyy less authoritarian than Krushchev's
Its a weird list. Lenin was extremely authoritarian. Andropov was less authoritarian than his predessors and some even see him as a potential reformer, that were just in power for too short a periode to make a difference, are you confusing him with Chernenko?

Gorbachev
Putin
Andropov
Khrushchev
Chernenko
Brezhnev
Lenin
Stalin
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