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...Putin has noticed such criticisms, he gives little sign of it. He has turned the Duma, political parties and regional governments into elaborate rubber stamps. "The separation of powers has been dismantled," says Vladimir Ryzhkov, one of the very few independent liberal deputies left in the Duma. "All power belongs to the President and his administration, and 1.3 million federal bureaucrats." People don't go to jail for expressing deviant views anymore (though a bill about to pass through the Duma will soon make that possible), but organized politics have been switched off in favor of direct rule. People...
...Lukashenko was growing more tense and unsure of himself than ever - and, as a result, was even more unpredictable and dangerous than ever. And both camps, as it turned out, proved wrong on the returns: in the end, Lukashenko claimed almost 83%. "This is not an election," quipped Vladimir Ryzhkov, an Independent Liberal deputy in the Russian Duma, who came to Minsk as a journalist, because the Belorusian authorities would not accredit him as an observer. "This is some other phenomenon...
...There are few statesmen who have had such influence on international affairs and social change," said United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar at a memorial service at Stockholm's city hall. Said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who met privately with Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov to discuss bilateral concerns shortly after the funeral: "Palme was a man of compassion. We share your grief...
...running the country, Luzhkov said. After uprisings in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, some fear for Russia's own future. "The [Kremlin] used to talk about modernization, integrating the country into the community of civilized nations. Now they talk of preservation," says Andrei Kortunov of think tank New Eurasia. Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent Duma member, thinks the Kremlin is preparing to alter the constitution so Putin can remain in power. Ryzhkov claims to have seen two memorandums, prepared by the security services, arguing for this change. Ryzhkov says the message was: "We have a new style of leader. Now we need...
...such open opposition to the government is extremely rare in Putin's Russia - and the Kremlin is still jittery after Ukraine's orange revolution, fearing that some of the popular unrest that defeated Moscow's candidate for President might spill across the border. And independent Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov insists that the danger is real: "These spontaneous protests signal the moral end of Putin's corrupt secret-police regime," he told TIME. In some regions, such as Chelyabinsk in the Urals and Kemerovo in Siberia, authorities caved in and reinstated the transport benefits, if only temporarily. But scores of protesters...