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Politics

Working for the Clampdown

By Matthew Yglesias
November 26, 2007

By most accounts I've heard, Vladimir Putin and his cronies would have no problem retaining power in Russia even without this kind of banning of protests and arresting of protestors, but I guess the idea is to frighten people.