A succession of weird assassinations: Andrei Kozlov (young vice-president of the Central Bank), Anna Politkovskaia, Alexandre Litvinenko (in the UK this time, this is quite something). Recently, Kasparov has been sent to jail for a few days for no obvious reason. All opposition seems to be systematically repressed.
But the fact is none of this is necessary, Putin has got a strong regime with a really strong following and would have won the elections anyway. So I have a question: what’s the point?
The answer probably lies in a deeper analysis of the Russian political sociology. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about that.
EDIT 04/12/07:Sarkozy has “heartily congratulated” President Putin on his party’s win. Talk about sucking up…On the other side of the border, in Germany, the government has said of the same Russian elections that they were not fair nor democratic.
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