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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Vladimir Putin's appointment this spring as prime minister of the symbolic "union" of Russia and Belarus was yet another example of the troubling similarities between today's Russia and the other most stable and prosperous Russian regime of the past 80 years: Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union in the 1970s. That economy, too, was fueled by then-record oil prices. And while there are clear differences...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
ÜMIT ENGINSOYWASHINGTON - Turkish Daily News As U.S. analysts almost unanimously declare Moscow the sole winner in the latest Caucasus crisis, a leading expert on Russian matters has said that Russia's next target might be the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. Qualifying Russia as "restless authoritarianism under the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin," Leon Aron, a resident scholar at...
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The Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
This morning at AEI Tom Donnelly moderated a panel discussion on Gerogia with Fred Kagan, Tom Donnelly, and Leon Aron. C-Span has video of the event (you have to click on the little red camera next to "AEI Panel Discussion"). And you can find Kagan's updates on the conflict here .
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
What Russia's war reveals The choice to invade Georgia exposes the raw disdain for democracy that drives Moscow’s authoritarian government. The world must wonder, who’s next? By Leon Aron With Russia's agreeing to the France-brokered peace plan to halt its...
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Westhawk (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
In yesterday’s Washington Post , Mr. Leon Aron, a Russian affairs analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, compares the supposedly stable Russia led this decade by Vladimir Putin with the menacing Soviet Union of the 1970s led by Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev’s creation ended in financial collapse. Is Putin’s Russia headed for the same crash? Mr. Aron lists the similarities...
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La Russophobe (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute is surely one of the most brilliant and insightful Russia scholars working today. His most recent column in the Washington Post explains in horrifying detail how Vladimir Putin, a proud KGB spy, is slowly taking his country back to the dark days of Soviet failure. In devastatingly few words, Aron exposes the fundamentally fraudulent...
