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Russia and the Medvedev Presidency: One Year On

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Vasil Avatar
Vasil
Posts: 46
Posted: 07.02.09, 11:56 AM
Although the speaker is too optimistic about Russian economic recovery - government still cannot allocate enough funds to recapitalize its banking system, - he does a great job in explaining popularity of Putin and Medvedev among Russians. Democracy has never been a priority for people who lived through the painful "shock therapy" reforms caused by rapid liberalization and democratization. Putin's agenda was to build an economically strong state as well as to re-establish its influence on international arena and he was able to succeed by stepping away from some of the democratic principles. United States, unfortunately is guilty of disregarding the same principles by trying to impose them. Medvedev is right in a way; there is no perfect democracy at the moment, but what important is the desire to improve.
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bryphi
Posts: 7
Posted: 07.08.09, 03:34 AM
I agree... At least he was honest about what they have now. Thats way more then I can say for our facade of a "democracy" LOL.
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redtux
Posts: 2
Posted: 03.31.10, 10:41 AM
Two points:
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Originally Posted by Vasil
Although the speaker is too optimistic about Russian economic recovery - government still cannot allocate enough funds to recapitalize its banking system, - he does a great job in explaining popularity of Putin and Medvedev among Russians.
He is not too optimistic. He is spot on. Russian economic recovery is no great feat. There's not that much to recover relative to western countries.

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Originally Posted by Vasil
Democracy has never been a priority for people who lived through the painful "shock therapy" reforms caused by rapid liberalization and democratization.
Never? I can agree with people getting tired of seemingly never-ending reform and "demoting" democracy to a rank of slightly lower priority in favor of stability, if only temporarily. I cannot agree with democracy never being a priority. Also, how can democracy not be a priority for people who lived through "rapid democratization"? What does it even mean? Many of those "people" didn't just live through it, they were the builders of democracy.
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Dmitry76
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Posted: 04.02.10, 12:36 AM
A very good speech. I think there is a lack of freedom in Russian mass media what is a prime cause of political ignorance of the majority of the population.
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