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Vladimir Putin has been in a leadership office at the Kremlin for 10 years, having a direct hand in transforming Russia ‘from the unstable but semidemocratic days of the 1990s to the statist, authoritarian structure of today.’ In more operational terms, that means carrying the country ‘from tentative democracy to near-police state.’ Putin couldn’t [...]

Either Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is already senile (that’s understandable at his ancient age) or he is really just a mouthpiece of his military junta and political cabal. He has been ranting and raving about the enemies of his state while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the objective and sordid reality of his land. One of his latest [...]