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Thursday 17th January

Putin on freedom versus welfare

Hugh Barnes, 17 January 2008

The start of the New Year finds Russia in bad shape, according to US democracy watchdog Freedom House,which claims that Russians now enjoy the same level of freedom ascitizens of Angola, Egypt and Tajikistan. In fact, Freedom House hasbeen scoring Russia "Not Free" for several years now. Yet even by itsown questionable standards, things apparently went "from bad to worse"in 2007, largely because of abuses during the State Duma election campaign:

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