Richard Nixon and Tolstoy must be having a good cry into their beer this December on news from Freedom House that political freedoms in Russia have backslid to where they were in 1989 causing a reclassification from "Partly Free" to "Not Free." Nixon warned of the possibility of a new Russian despotism in a 1992 memo to fifty foriegn policy experts that argued Russia was at a defining moment in its history and needed our help in clawing through the legacy of communism to become a state defined by free markets and free politics. Twelve years later, it looks like Nixon was right.
Who Lost Russia?
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