The great thing about blogging is that often readers will send in articles, asking us to post them – which of course makes my job easier. The article below comes from one of our regular who wishes to remain anonymous, and although I don’t necessarily agree with all the arguments (as you can tell from yesterday’s podcast), it is an interesting piece. Meet the new boss – same as the old boss Anonymous Contributor Everybody’s talking about how the new Russian president will bring a breath of fresh air with new policies, new emphasis, new this, new that… But will anything really be “new” in Russia? Recent events of a bureaucratic nature would suggest that the only thing new will be the address from which power is wielded. The list is much longer than this, but just a cursory scan of news items from the past few days reveals: