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| Putin pretending to be a nice man |
Thirty years after the failed coup attempt then Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, which led to the final collapse of the Soviet Union, a cursory reading of journalistic reflection on this event mainly reflects on the dashed hopes for democratic freedoms. After the Yeltsin years, and the rise of Vladimir Putin, Russia has merely exchanged one form of autocracy for another.
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