13 / 12 / 2011
Putin faces ‘problem of any modernizing autocrat’
"Russia’s pro-democracy protests may not generate another ‘Arab Spring’, but they do represent “the first real outpouring of grassroots popular sentiment” in post-Soviet Russian history, says Stephen Sestanovich (left), an analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations. The current turmoil “may subside, but it's probably more likely that it will grow and be marked by greater mobilization, organization, and focus,” he argues in a CRF interview". Read more
By Democracy Digest, 13 December 2011