Neo-Soviet Russia and America
Kim Zigfield, a Russian commentator and blogger, believes that revolution is brewing in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Russia. His incompetence and shameless artifice are surfacing, forcing him to reply on neo-Soviet brutality.
Yuri Shevchuk of the seminal rock band DDT, recently launched into an unprecedented, lengthy, and biting critique of the Putin regime. A video of the speech has already been viewed nearly 200,000 times and received over 500 comments. Then an online petition surfaced, attracting the support of virtually every significant opposition leader, calling for Putin's removal.
Zigfield comments that Russians have good reasons to despise the increasingly neo-Soviet regime that Putin has created. When he came to power two years ago, President Dmitry Medvedev promised that he would restore Russia's infamously corrupt electoral process; but exactly the opposite has happened.
He adds that Putin is likely delighted to see that Russia's performance has become even worse under Medvedev because it gives him the chance to further justify a return to power.