Russia Under Putin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Issue Date July 2000
Volume 11
Issue 3
Page Numbers 19-33
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Does the election of Vladimir Putin as Russia’s president represent a fundamental turn away from democracy or merely a temporary setback? Although Putin’s apparent indifference to democracy is worrisome, it would be premature to conclude that democracy is lost in Russia.