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Has there been "rollback" of democracy in Russia under Putin?

... non-property-owners, then to women, then to others, like African Americans in America, who had been denied the opportunity to vote. Ruling elites do not normally democratize without being pushed, and when they are pushed, they rarely concede more power to the people ... ... abused his royal powers, the aristocracy would not have been provoked to mobilize and compel the him to sign the Magna Carta. The dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell in Great Britain from 1653-1658 can certainly be called rollback from the democratic revolution ...

16.02.2016

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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
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    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
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