Saturday, June 16, 2007

Rainy Sundays With Tsar Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

Rainy Sundays with Tsar Vladimir Putin, President of Russia


From today's Financial Times:

Vladimir Putin, Russia’s three-term president, has to date eschewed brute force to suppress opposition. But this week opposition leaders have been repeatedly interrogated by police, their homes and those of their extended families raided, and a law rushed through parliament designed to intimidate anti-regime protesters who refuse to stay off the streets.

continued at:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/50ad676a-b565-11e1-ab92-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1xxwKvBGh