February 10, 2009 By James Kimer

Boris Nemtsov: Dictatorship or Perestroika

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The following is an exclusive translation from Grani.ru.

Dictatorship or perestroika

By Boris Nemtsov, Grani.ru

The crisis has shown the complete incompetency and weakness of the state built by Putin. The main feature of “putinism” – an inability to adapt to new conditions, external threats, crises. Under the leadership of Putin, Russia has lost immunity to the crisis, and has experienced a significantly greater hit than all the other countries that have caught the virus.

Therefore, the main anti-crisis measure – this is the resignation of Putin and his government, as the architects of an incompetent, weak state. Without this decision, citizens are going to writhe convulsively, observing how the national leader conducts experiments on the country.

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