Russia
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Vladimir Putin won reelection as Russian
President in March 2004, in an exercise in
“managed democracy” in which he took 71%
of the vote and faced no serious competition.
The pro-Putin Unified Russia party similarly
swept the parliamentary election in December
2003 and controls more than two-thirds of the
seats in the Duma. Also in March, Putin
replaced long-serving Premier Kasyanov with
a little-known bureaucrat, Mikhail Fradkov,
indicating Putin’s intent to take the reins of
the government ev…
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Date:
January 6, 2006
Creator:
Goldman, Stuart D.
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