Oleg Klimov writes [1] [ru] that Mikhail Gorbachev, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union's collapse, said that “Putin is no dictator – he has just castrated democracy by depriving citizens of the democratic right to choose.”
Russia: “Democracy Without Balls”
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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