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| Nashi Vows to Fight Liberals, Bureaucrats |
| 2005-04-18 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 This is about right: political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said the Kremlin fears an uprising such as Ukraine's Orange Revolution last year. "This [Nashi] is an organization of young fighters, a preventive measure against a possible Orange Revolution in Russia," Piontkovsky said. He said a revolution was unlikely to happen but that the authorities were scared and acting "hysterically." There is no real opposition to speak of, but that does not indicate that Putin's government is secure. It ain't. He's a puppet whose only independent source of power is $50/bbl oil. Were oil to fall in price, hsi ramshackle government would lose all authority and Putin would be overthrown by his FSB minders shortly thereafter. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-18 5:00:46 PM |