Yoshie wrote:
> One one hand:
>
> * Financial Times (London)
> January 5, 2001, Friday London Edition 1
> SECTION: WORLD NEWS - EUROPE; Pg. 6
> HEADLINE: WORLD NEWS - EUROPE: Russia turns its back on western aid:
In order to understand anything in Russia, you have to dig beneath the surfac
Yoshie:
> First of all, Russian leftists need to expand the base for support of
> Communism beyond "platoons of pensioners"! I don't think they can
> expand it while accommodating themselves to Putin, though. It seems
> to me that Zyuganov ain't smart or ambitious enough to use Putin for
> his s
