Tag: Russian State Humanities University

‘Patriots’ of Putin’s Party Want to Dispense with Democracy

November 2, 2014

Staunton, November 1 – In a move that recalls the ending of Costa-Gavras’ 1969 classic film “Z” about the Greek junta, a group of Putin loyalists from his United Russia Party are calling for dispensing with the word “democracy” in Russia, closing the independent Higher School of Economics and Ekho Moskvy, and restoring choral singing […]