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uhnope

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1. Great analysis.

Reply to Electric Monk (Original post)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:33 PM

Jan 2015

Yes though "Russia is a lot like the old Russia," RT and the government-controlled media is very 21st century: "some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends."

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