>Rossiiskiye Vesti
>No. 2
>January 2003
>[translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only]
>PUTIN SHOULD RELY ON A DEMOCRATIC LEFT BLOC
>Mikhail DENISOV, Viktor MILITAREV
> The economic system created in Russia is a trap. ..... This system
>does not have self-improvement facilities because it is part of
>the global capitalist system, which prevents the periphery from
>reaching the standards of income comparable to those of the
>centre while shifting the burden of transition processes to the
>periphery.
Interesting, concise, formulation.
Chris Burford London