http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spiegel-cover-story-on-pussy-riot-trial-and-putin-a-849697.html
LONG ANALYSIS...with 12 fotos
The authors deliver a brief summary of Vladimir Putin's tarnished rule...from ambitious KGB agent...to an increasingly intolerant and repressive ruler.
Putin's no Stalin...but the Pussy Riot crackdown and joke trial could blow-up in his smug face.
AND: The opposition has announced a 7 October internet vote...to identify its most popular leaders...with a minimum of 100,00 voters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-russia-opposition-idUSBRE87C0WQ20120813
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