Putin’s siloviki ‘have stolen our country’
Vladimir Putin’s election campaign manager has attacked Russian president Dmitry Medvedev for failing to support his premier’s election campaign, and dismissed criticism of a decision to prevent a liberal opposition leader from contesting the March 4th ballot.
The Kremlin’s media managers made “a tactical retreat” in the wake of the democratic opposition’s resurgence, even allowing critical voices to appear on state-controlled media.
When former State Duma deputy and opposition activist Vladimir Ryzhkov appeared on a late-night talk show, “because that was so rare, the program got a huge 25 percent ratings share in Moscow. But viewers watched while Sergei Kurginyan, a Kremlin ...
