EDITORIAL: Back to the USSR
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December 23, 2011 5:00 AM
After the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Russia made only a brief stab at democracy. What followed under Vladimir Putin has been a steady slide back to the authoritarianism that has long blighted its history. The trend was dramatically highlighted in Sunday's fraud-marred parliamentary election.
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