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It doesn't make it more successful or stable. Putin simply continued Yeltsin changes: more power to the government, suppress the opposition, consolidate the pow
by free652 13y ago
It doesn't make it more successful or stable. Putin simply continued Yeltsin changes: more power to the government, suppress the opposition, consolidate the power in few hands. He haven't done anything new, except creating a new image of an iron man that Russia loves (Like Stalin, translated from Russian - steel).
- arcadeparade 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia#Putin.27s_first_presidency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia#Putin.27s_fir... Nice little graph there.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoMost of those graphs conveniently end in 2010. 2010 was the year when world economy started to recover, russia's - not so much.