>With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on
>a fitful transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later,
>Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, a childhood
>hooligan turned KGB officer who rose from nowhere determined to
>restore the order of the Soviet past, resolved to bring an end to the
>revolution.
Do you really believe this drivel? Yeltsin was a hack who presided over one of the great collapses in human history, and who allowed a gang of thugs to grab Russia's most valuable assets for next to nothing. Is that a democratic revolution?
Doug