UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
Amanpour
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The Persistence of Autocracy in Russia
The persistence of autocracy in russia is explained less by the state strength than by the weakness of society. In 19 17 itself, when the empire had collapsed, it was only nine months before the bolshevik seized power and began to rebuild a dictatorship through civil war. Since 19 91, i would argue, very few institutions have developed o a national level in order to stabilize democracy? I mean, where are the genuine political parties? Where are the trade unions? The consumer organizations? There are the housing associations? All these things we take for granted as part of a civil society, to balance against a state that has managed,. unfortunately, to reassert itself under puton's leadership.
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