'..his governing model is broken, and his country is beginning to turn on him.'<blockquote>'..The Arab Spring showed that “engagement” with autocratic leaders isn’t wise if their grip is slipping. With thousands of opposition demonstrators roaming the streets of Moscow and clashing with his security forces, Putin looks more than a little like Hosni Mubarak or Bashar al-Assad when Obama was courting them three years ago: For now he’s in control — but his governing model is broken, and his country is beginning to turn on him.
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..maybe it’s time to put human rights in Russia back on the agenda.'
- Jackson Diehl,
Obama’s misguided wooing of an uninterested Putin, May 14, 2012</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was also at the conference Sunday, claimed that recent polls that led to the re-election of Putin as president were marred by fraud. '
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Putin an 'oligarch' seeking Stalinist rule, May 14 2012</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Orwellian politics are turning Russia into an object of international ridicule. This is not how most Russians see their nation's future.'
- Vladimir Frolov,
Putin's Big Inauguration Is Immersed in Big Lies, 14 May 2012</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
(Russian Reform) - '..the Magnitsky Act is exactly the right thing to do.'</blockquote>