I really don't think Medvedev wants to be compared to the second-least-popular Russian leader of the last century. :)
--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Mon, March 10, 2008 6:32 am, Ethan Young
> crossposted from Prospect:
>
> >
>
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10084
> >
> > Something else we might expect is that
> anti-western nationalists in
> > Russian politics, culture, journalism and academia
> will unite
> > against Medvedev, as they did in the late 1980s
> against Gorbachev.
>
> Hilarious. They really want Gorby back -- because
> after Gorby came the
> Great Collapse, which gave the neolibs a free hand
> to indulge in a decade
> of easy plunder.
>
> Not going to happen.
>
> The road to the Kremlin is paved with the political
> carcasses of those who
> underestimated Medvedev. Sharp, savvy,
> well-informed, tough as nails (he
> edged out Ivanov to become candidate, a feat worthy
> of a Tolstoy novella
> in its own right), with the managerial experience of
> running Gazprom as
> well as ramping up Russia's new social programs.
> Medvedev is going to piss
> off the neolibs in ways they can't even begin to
> dream of.
>
> -- DRR
>
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