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Old World Blues; The desire to return to a time when they perceived themselves to be better, to be stronger. It is an illusion.
Top table at the morgue >

It's hard to imagine today, but there was a time he was seen as a champion of Democracy in Russia and the guy who would lead Russia to fully integrate with the perceived global order of the times. >

Then he got kinda senile. Why term limits should be a thing everywhere. >

Interestingly he's the one who pushed through the Russian Constitution which did have a 2 term limit on it. However he had that part of the Constitution removed a few years back to allow him to remain President for life. >

Initially the term limit was 2 consecutive ones.
Which explained why at some point Medvedev was his puppet boss before Putin took the office back. >

What kept Russia from recovering and flourishing for the last 30 years while participating in global politics as a neighbor? Or let's be fair, cut the chaotic nineties from this. What about the last 20 years?