Russia’s Main Problem isn’t Populism but Two Forms of Elitism, Emil Pain Says

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(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, May 5, 2019) Russia’s main problem isn’t populism, Emil Pain says. Indeed, it does not really exist being instead just as much an imitation of political reality as Russian democracy is. Instead, “the real problem is Russia is elitism in its two basic forms,” the paternalist one in the state based on […]

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