Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Have Western politicians and intellectuals been seduced by Putin’s Russia just as an earlier generation became “useful idiots” for the Soviet Union? Lilia Shevstova thinks so. The Schroederization of European policy elites is especially pronounced, she argues, citing the European Council on Foreign Relations’ publication, What Does Russia Think?, which regurgitates dubious rationales for the ruling elite’s
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