Issue 4269. Last Updated: 11/08/2009

Liberals Must Come to Grips With New Russia

By Boris Kapustin
Russian liberalism is not just in crisis, politically speaking. It has ceased to exist. It is not represented in the parliament, it has disappeared as a focus of public debates, even among intellectuals, and its claims to be a credible and politically attractive ideology now seem vain if not preposterous.

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