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RUSSIA: Russia's No Democracy? So What?*
By Michael McFaul and James M. Goldgeier
Vladimir Putin's autocratic regime is bad news...for Russia and the United States. By Michael McFaul and James Goldgeier.
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*This article is available only in the print edition of the Hoover Digest. Click here to request a free issue.
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This essay appeared in the Washington Post on April 9, 2006.
Available from the Hoover Press
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Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag, edited by Paul R. Gregory and Valery
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Michael McFaul is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a professor of political science at Stanford. An expert on international relations, Russian politics, political and economic reform in post-communist countries, and U.S. foreign policy, he is director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute, where he also serves as deputy director.
James M. Goldgeier is the Henry A. Kissinger scholar in foreign policy and international relations at the Library of Congress and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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