By Equating Putin And Russia, You Are

I Knew President Yeltsin Well. He Would Never Have Tolerated Government Officials Demonstratively Showing Off The Millions They Acquired Through Corruption, The Way It's Done Today.

To Admit Guilt For Nonexistent Crimes Is Unacceptable To Me.

It's A Very Erroneous Strategy To Try To Push The Russian Opposition To Unite. First Of All, The Opposition Is Addressing Different Parts Of Russian Society That Have Differing Points Of View. And Besides, A United Opposition Is A Nice Big Target That The Authorities Have A Much Easier Time Fighting. And Besides, Resisting An Authoritarian Regime With An Authoritarian Opposition Merely Means That, In The Event Of Victory, You're Just Doing Yet Another Round Of The Same Old, Same Old.

Russian People Really Don't Like It When Somebody Does Horrible Things In Russia, And Then Can Calmly Go Travel To Another Country And Spend Time There. And This Is What Needs To Be Done: The Russian People Need To Be Told This, Because In Today's World, Just Doing Something Is Not Enough. You've Got To Tell About It, Too. If You've Done Something And Haven't Told About It, It's As Good As If You Hadn't Done It At All.

If We Talk About Changes Of Power In Russia, That Has Occurred Several Times In The Past Century. After Stalin Came Khrushchev, Who Implemented His Legacy Quite Radically, One Could Say. But There Was No Blood, Nonetheless. After Brezhnev Came Gorbachev. I'm Not Talking About The Ones Who Were In Power For Only A Short Period Of Time. Gorbachev, Too, Left A Very Radical Legacy.