=== radical changes to Russia's democratic institutions that will give the Kremlin greater power than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union
It would be nice if just once folks had the honesty to point up even one example of the Kremlin's being "out of control" in the least.
Strictly dramatic stagings -- such as Yeltsin's aping Lenin and standing atop a tank as he fired on the "White House" -- don't count, of course.
But this seems to be the final stages of the rollback into full-fledged communism.
Now, hang around and watch FReepers defend Putin.