Word: mitrokhin
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...rehabilitate Stalin's image in the eyes of the public? Some opposition politicians believe it's tied to the United Russia party's efforts to solidify its power. "The state is hinting that Stalin's tactics are also part of its arsenal for controlling the country," says Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of the opposition Yabloko party. The widespread sympathy toward Stalin, he adds, is also a result of the lingering impact of Soviet propaganda, which the Russian government never tried to erase from the public consciousness after communism fell. "All countries emerging from totalitarianism and evolving into a normal form...
...every major vote since the fall of communism, reports of vote-rigging, ballot box-stuffing and voter intimidation were rife. In the most blatant violation, one polling station in Moscow recorded zero votes for the opposition Yabloko Party, even though its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, and his family had all gone there to vote. (Their votes were later found during a recount.) It was a typical landslide day for United Russia. The party claimed victory in virtually all 7,000 races, in some cases by improbably wide margins. (See pictures of the recent war in Georgia...
...bold even by the standards of Moscow, a city that has become used to assassinations over the past few years. "This murder shows that political murder [has] become the decisive factor in Russia's social life, and the use of force the main argument against a personality," Sergey Mitrokhin, head of the liberal Yabloko Party, said in a statement. The hit on Markelov, the second such high-profile assassination in the capital's center in five months, "casts us back to the 1990s," Gennady Gudkov, deputy head of the State Duma's Security Committee, told journalists...
...rallies in the capital are banned in front of historical monuments, ruling out much of the city center. Demonstrators also have to maintain a density of two protesters per square yard. And at indoor events, there must be a seat for every attendee. "The law is ridiculous," says Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of a liberal opposition party in the Moscow duma. "If you have five full chairs and someone arrives late, you are not allowed to let them...
...Mitrokhin, who died last year, and his book collaborator Christopher Andrew, always promised a second volume. Andrew and Penguin, the publisher, have told Time the book will be published in September, but are tight-lipped about its contents. Perhaps they will include a fuller account of the activities of Symonds, who sometimes posed as a sports fan on his jaunts to Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Symonds, who served jail time for corruption but has never been charged with espionage, told Time his missions included obtaining false identities and acting as a "frightener" or standover...