Russia’s

New Authoritarianism





-DR. ABDUL RUFF







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It is apparent the new

Russian regime under Putin-Medvedev

duo is bent upon retaining the old Soviet model of control and inventing

new horizons

to oppress the people and opposition that do not fall in line of

Kremlin’s

total control.Since Russia promotes western colonization process,

especially massacres of Muslims, Russian leaders have enough freedom

now to deal with the domestic opponents the way they deems fit.










Realignment of US-Russia

terror ties got an unexpected boost, in favor of Russia, since Sept-11

hoax Russia is doubly happy about its new fate as a junior partner of

USA. Putin-Medvedev duo, promoting crony capitalism and state

crimes, seems to have developed cold feet

at the rising anti-regime protests across the nation following poor showing by

their United Russia party though it retains the majority in a reduced manner and

malpractices in the parliamentary poll.









Russian regime is eager to split the opposition and invalidate

the opposition parties though state maneuverings. As a result,

Russia on January 27 disqualified Putin’s liberal challenger Grigory Yavlinsky

from the March 4 presidential ballot, in a move slammed by his supporters as

undermining the legitimacy of the polls.





Facing Russia’s largest protests since the turbulent

1990s, Medvedev last month proposed reducing the required number of signatures

— a move the opposition said was being made too late. Yavlinsky, who was shown,

winning less than three percent of the vote in most polls, founded Yabloko in

1993 as Russia struggled with a post-Soviet economic crisis that left many

impoverished and looking for social protection.











And, Russia’s central elections commission said it

could not accept nearly a quarter of the registration signatures gathered by

Yavlinsky’s Yabloko (Apple) party because they were either photocopies of

originals or fakes. EC announced that it

will not able to register Yavlinsky as a candidate.











Russia’s strict presidential election rules require all

independent candidates whose parties fail to win seats in parliament to collect

two million signatures in a two-month span to win registration. The restriction

has been heavily criticized by candidates as well as the growing protest

movement against Putin, who will be standing for a third Kremlin term in the

polls after his four year stint as prime minister. The disqualification

“undermines the legitimacy of the vote. The authorities were particularly keen

to make sure that Yabloko which sent thousands of observers to December’s

parliamentary elections — was barred from monitoring the presidential vote. This

was ordered directly by Putin,” said Sergei Mitrokhin, chairman of the liberal

Yabloko party that Yavlinsky founded in 1993.

















The Kremlin

deliberately changed the presidential election rules. Putin had doubled the number of signatures

required for candidates’ registration in 2004, a year in which he stepped up

his campaign to centralize power by also announcing an end to direct elections

for regional governors. The presidential

election rules were tightened again in 2007 when Putin was about to hand power

over to his hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev, giving candidates just a

month to rally their support instead of the previous three.

















The

59-year-old economist Yavlinsky always promoted

more socially-oriented policies and twice ran for president, failing to

break

the 10-percent barrier in both 1996 and 2000. He made a surprise return

to

Russian politics last year after refusing to face Putin or then his

"associate" Dmitry Medvedev in two past polls that he termed

undemocratic.






The USA-UK terror twins

always critical of Moscow, now closes its deadly eyes on Russia's

democracy deficits cheerily because the NATO terror syndicate has

ensured the Russian support for their beastly crimes in Afghanistan,

Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and elsewhere.








USA and Russia are also now the secret strategic partners. While USA

supplies terror goods to Israel, Russia ships terror goods to India.
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د. عبد راف


Dr. Abdul Ruff, Specialist

on State Terrorism; Educationalist;Chancellor-Founder of Centor for International

Affairs(CIA); Independent Analyst;Chronicler of Foreign

occupations & Freedom movements(Palestine,Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Chechnya, etc); Anti-Muslimism

and anti-Islamism are more dangerous than "terrorism" Anti-Islamic

forces & terrorists are using criminal elements for terrorizing the

world and they in disguise are harming genuine interests of ordinary

Muslims. Global media today, even in Muslim nations, are controlled by CIA & other anti-Islamic agencies. Former university Teacher;/website:abdulruff.wordpress.com/ 91-9961868309/91-9961868309