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edhopper

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Tue Dec 30, 2014, 06:37 PM Dec 2014

Putin looking more and more like a USSR First Secretary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/world/europe/aleksei-navalny-convicted.html?_r=0

MOSCOW — The police in Moscow briefly detained the anticorruption crusader and political opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Tuesday as he tried to join an unauthorized, antigovernment rally, just hours after a Moscow court had given him a suspended sentence on criminal fraud charges.


Or just look at the front page of the Huffpost.
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