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Vjatcheslav Nikonow

Coming from an extremely old political Russian family, Vjatcheslav Nikonow is one of the main «conservative» political scientists of Russia and president of Politika foundation of Moscow.

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“Is an orange revolution really necessary to establish democracy?”

by Vjatcheslav Nikonow

14 January 2006

Liberal groups abroad and in Russia consider Putin’s way of ruling authoritarian and inefficient. Taking into account that regimes, which liberals don’t like and which are ruled by a strong personality are usually labelled as fragile, the logical consequence would then be a sort of a «color (…)