http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/world/europe/04russia.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Putin Basks in Election Win Despite Criticism
This article is from today and conerns the outcome of Russia's parliamentary elections, and the winning of said elections by United Russia, President Putin's party. It leads in right away talking about how pleased Putin is about the results, but quickly segues into how upset the opposition and the rest of Europe is.
It then moves on to talk about whether or not Putin will designate someone and the fact that many European monitors believe there was a clear abuse of the Kremlin's power in swaying the election. This is very important in the coming months, as Russia's presidential elections are upcoming and many are speculating that Putin will either be elected Prime Minister, or that he will use a loophole or a constitution change to allow himself to remain in office. Scary times, people...
2 comments:
How you sad that people are scared he will do something to stay in office, that reminds me about a piece I found concerning Venezuela and Hugo Chavez recently. A similar situation. It is a shock to see the kinds of things that are really happening in the world.
I thought this was a pretty nice summary i wish you would have analyzed the authors writing techniques and given a little of your opinion to how effective you thought the piece was.
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