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Putin Says Russia Will Never be a 'Dictatorship' | |
2012-01-26 | |
[An Nahar] Russia will never become a dictatorship, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin![]() said Wednesday, as he continued his bid for a third term as president despite unprecedented protests against his rule. "We have an open country and no matter what they say or write, no matter what scary statements they make about some sort of dictatorship, we don't have that and -- I hope -- never will," he told students of Tomsk Polytechnic University in Siberia.
"We have an open market economy and an open country on the whole," he said in comments released by his office. Putin is wrestling with the worst legitimacy crisis of his 12-year rule after he announced plans to seek a third term in the Kremlin in a job swap with incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev in September. Many ordinary Russians have attacked the plan. Tens of thousands of people erupted into the streets in protest after December parliamentary elections that observers said were slanted in favor of Putin's ruling party. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 In Russian it's called Putinshtina,not dictatorship, so there. |
Posted by: Twobyfour 2012-01-26 21:27 |
#5 I thought Russia was never a dictatorship, except for that brief interval with Kruschev? |
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-26 15:02 |
#4 As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list — I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed — who never would be missed! There's the pestilential journalists who write offensive slanders — All people to whom the wretched loyal opposition panders — All hooligans who curse the state, and billionaires who steals — All persons who, when dining out, eat only Halal meals — And all third persons who on spoiling Kremlin plots insist — They'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed! |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-26 12:19 |
#3 Right. More like an Oligarchy. |
Posted by: newc 2012-01-26 09:34 |
#2 LOL, WM. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-01-26 01:59 |
#1 after all Dictatorship is such an icky word and I am the hindmost! |
Posted by: Water Modem 2012-01-26 01:29 |