--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote: Doug, understand the following. Politics in Russia is NOT interesting in the conventional sense. I find this regretable. However, society here is left to do what it wants and pleases. Hardly anyone in Russia cares about politics because politics doesn't enter thier lives.
Your comment on Putin as being like Stalin makes me think you watch too much CNN and FOX. In Russia there is no real state ideology to critique. Here it is only about money. Society is left to its own devices.