The Long Life of Homo Sovieticus; Russia  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8763 (Dec. 2011), page 26-28.
Topik: Government; Demonstrations & Protests; Presidents; Politics
Fulltext: The long life of Homo sovieticus.pdf (58.49KB)

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Twenty years to the month since the Soviet Union fell apart, crowds of angry young people have taken to the streets of Moscow, protesting against the ruling United Russia Party ("the party of crooks and thieves") and chanting "Russia without Putin!" Hundreds have been detained, and the army has been brought into the centre of Moscow "to provide security". Although the numbers are a far cry from the half-million who thronged the streets to bury the USSR, these were the biggest protests in recent years. The immediate trigger for this crisis was the rigging of the parliamentary elections on December 4th. But the causes lie far deeper. The ruling regime started to lose its legitimacy just as Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, declared a final victory for "stability", promised to return to the Kremlin as president and pledged to rebuild a Eurasian Union with former Soviet republics. The Soviet flavour of all this had been underscored at United Russia's party congress at the end of November, where Mr Putin was nominated for the presidency.

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