Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish two very dangerous tasks at once: the destruction of civil society in Russia, and the withering away of international support for a democratic Ukraine. The first will be more easily accomplished than the second. The Assault on Civil Society The imprisonment of Alexei Navalny has been followed by a More

The post Putin’s Democracy Problem: Civil Society and Ukraine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.