Archive for April 16th, 2006

Does Putin’s Russia resemble the Shah’s Iran?

By Sean at 16 April, 2006, 6:15 am

Does Putin’s Russia resemble the Shah’s Iran? This is the question Boris Kagarlitsky ponders in his recent column “The Shah’s Iran & Putin’s Russia” on Eurasian Home. His argument runs like this. Like the Shah’s Iran, Putin has successfully created an economy that shows stable growth based on oil and gas exports. [...]

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