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Russia and Eurasia: October 2000

Putin in Power

By: Michael McFaul

Description: "During the Yeltsin years, it became fashionable in the West to cite Russia's weak state as the source of Russia's ills. Putin has demonstrated after only a few months in office that the Russian federal state still has tremendous power-perhaps too much power-if the man in control of that state is vigorous, ambitious, and popular."

Volume: 99
Issue: 639
Page: 307

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