Putin's Contribution to Democracy
Against The Current vol. 86

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/1956
Date Written:  2000-05-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12894

Behind Vladimir Putin's election are the accoutrements of Russia's 21st century democracy -- a controlled media which smears opponents and lies about the war in Chechnya, journalists who publish their price to regurgitate government propaganda (the going rate is $4000 for a laudatory article), unbridled patriotism and just in case none of this works, filling the voter roster with dead souls.