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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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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...
