"Bring back the anti-national government!"
""MOSCOW - A creeping crackdown is underway in Russia as the Kremlin has accused nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) of spying, moved to restrict political parties, and is considering measures that would weaken its print media.
Earlier this month Nikolai Patrushev, head of the state's FSB security service, charged that NGOs - including the US Peace Corps, the British Merlin medical relief foundation, and the Arab Red Crescent Society - were vehicles for "conducting intelligence operations under the guise of charity" activities. All the named groups issued angry denials.
Tough talk of limiting Russia's foreign-funded civil society, coupled with a new election law to limit the political field, does not represent a sudden shift, but rather a trend begun under President Vladimir Putin to tighten control over the country's press and public politics, experts say.
"We are returning to the Soviet system of governing, when all was officially under control, although in practice nothing was actually under control," says Dmitri Oreshkin, an expert with Merkator, an independent think tank. "The state being constructed through this process will be unitarian [have a single power center] and will, to a great extent, be an authoritarian state.""
"Bring back the anti-national government!"
If Putin regime wants to resurrect Stalinist practices of show trials, repressions, etc., it is going down one way or another. Russia had more then enough of its fair share of tyrants, thugs and mass-murderers and any new attempt at mass repressions will simply ruin the country. Hopefully, Putin regime will simply self-destruct and it will not take the country with it.