Monday, August 13, 2007
The Good Czar
Cathy Young in Reason
Find out what Yeltsin drank and send President Putin a barrel!
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
Update: Just don't, as The Economist warns, get Tsarstruck. ¶ 8/13/2007 05:44:00 PM
as the Russian journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza noted in another EJ.ru [the liberal Russian website] obituary, Yeltsin’s Russia was "a country which had independent television and no political prisoners," a country where opposition parties flourished and where the president could embarrass himself with drunken antics but did not muzzle critics or send goons to crush peaceful protests and take over TV stations.
Find out what Yeltsin drank and send President Putin a barrel!
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
Update: Just don't, as The Economist warns, get Tsarstruck. ¶ 8/13/2007 05:44:00 PM
