Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Will Vladimir Putin’s vulgar dismissal of Russia’s democratic dissidents come to haunt him? And is his power vertical the principal impediment to the elite’s superpower aspirations? Police arrested over 100 activists at last weekend’s Strategy 31 rally, including leading opposition activists Boris Nemtsov and Konstantin Kosyakin, although another organizer, former Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva, was not
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