<blockquote>'..an unmanageable bureaucracy and grappling with ruling a "virtual mafia state" dominated by corrupt businessmen and the security forces.'
- Reuters (
Source, November 29, 2010)</blockquote>
<blockquote>'..Russia has become an outright dictatorship. No other kind of state would be so opaque, nor its citizens so preoccupied with their ruler.'
-
Putin Disappears Like a Dictator, March 12, 2015</blockquote>
Context<Blockquote>
Former Russian Prime Minister Warns The EU About Putin, March 11, 2015
"Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire", February 02, 2007
'The clock is ticking..' - Olga Romanova</blockquote>