The more things change

Gonz

Gonz

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Return to USSR style politcs?

February 8, 2004
Challenger to Putin for Russian Presidency Is Missing
By STEVEN LEE MYERS

MOSCOW, Feb. 8 — One of Vladimir V. Putin's challengers in next month's presidential election is missing, and the police and security services announced today that they had begun a search for him.

Ivan P. Rybkin, a former Parliament speaker and national security adviser under Boris N. Yeltsin, has not been seen or heard from since Thursday evening, raising fears among his family and campaign aides that something dire had happened to him.
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i thought Russia was no longer doing things Soviet style? I thought it all ended with Mikhel Gorbachev?
 
Sure, with power in the right hands. I have about as much trust in Putin as I do in China, which is just about none. I can't say for certain he's involved in this... but it wouldn't surprise me either, and that's a bad sign.
 
saw that earlier on the news yes...with putin's reputation on propaganda, i wouldn't be too surprised if he is some way involved in this.
the parliament elections weren't too kosher either after all...

hopefully they find out what did happen. there's a lot more to putin than you'd think. seems like KBG people don't change ;)
 
What does this have to do with the way the USSR ran politics? A "challenger" would have been in Siberia before you could say Jakov Robinson, and no one outside the Politboro would have known jack-shit about it. This sounds more like the way the Russian Mafia does business. Not that I don't think Putin is involved, mind you.
 
The difference is the Soviets never would have said they kil...err, the pol was missing :D
 
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