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The Putin Paradox

Op-ed: Center for American Progress on June 20, 2004

Michael McFaul - Since becoming Russia's President in 2000, Vladimir Putin has simultaneously pushed forward a positive agenda of economic reform and a negative agenda of political repression. It's a sad story of one step forward, two steps back, and if it continues it will threaten the existence of a free Russian society. Read more »