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Russia Under Putin

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...Vladimir V. Putin has consistently and increasingly consolidated power in Russia within his own hands (Smith 20). Rajan Menon, Russian expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, points out that while Russia has the trappings of democracy, it retains a “strong authoritarian core” (Smith 20). Under Putin’s leadership, Russia’s economy has prospered and underlying much of this economic success is the price of oil, as Russia is the world’s second-greatest exporter of crude oil (Smith 20). Nevertheless, some experts fear that Russia’s oil wealth, while it has caused many Russians to prosper, has actually weakened its democracy (Smith 20). Valdimir Ryzhkov, a liberal representative in the Duma, asserts that as oil prices increased, “reforms became slower” (Smith 20).
Last year, as oil prices reached record levels, the Russian legislature did not pass one reform. Furthermore, there has been a pattern of critics of the government dying under suspicious circumstances. Alexander Litvinenko, while in London, was poisoned from being exposed to polonium 210. He died accusing...

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