Kim Zigfeld is a New York City-based writer who blogs at the Pajamas Media Network blog Publius Pundit and publishes her own Russia specialty blog, La Russophobe. She also writes for Russia! magazine and is researching a book on the rise of dictatorship in Putin’s Russia.

Shall I repeat that part: “She also writes for Russia! magazine.” I’ll repeat: “She also writes for Russia! magazine.” Is it clear yet? “She” “writes” “for” “Russia! Magazine.”

Now, about those medications…

the US Navy for moving ships away

from the Bahrain port of Manama becaue there was a threat against it

by someone named Osama Bin Laden. Silly us, to be concerned about UBL

back then.

Putin knows about quagmires, he followed Yeltsin back into the classic Russian quagmire of the 18th and 19th century. Chechnya & the Caucasus. In fact, Grozny, the

city obliterated in the first Chechen War was the “Green Zone” of

the late 18th century; the name literally means “Fortress” in Russian. Putin’s little adventures in the near abroad broughtWahhabism to Chechnya and the lost of hundreds of lives at places like the Nord Ost Theatre and Beslan School #4. Which he used as an excuse to abolish all election of regional governors His silovki associates from the security services, have seized the administration of the country; imposing a real police state. Meanwhile he trades men & material for Iran to finish their bomb; which is likely to end up in

Chechen hands. much like the Iraqi

WMD program which followed Soveit lines. Assasinating the elected exile political leader of the Chechens; Zandarbichev is also something that has no U.S. parallel.

The suspicious death of Politskaya, Stairova, and let’s not forget Litvinenko have no Western parallel

The comment about Zuyganov is instructive. Zuyganov now poses as the real alternative, to Putin’s police state’ but that’s because he beat them to it. Much like stalking

horse Zhirinovsky did some years back. They both promised the re-emergence of the military-industrial complex, the return of the nomenklatura as the silovki.

Zuyganov, Putin, Zhirinovsky, six of one; half a dozen of the other.

There is only a matter of tactics,

that separate them. Just like their

ally, Iran’s mullacracy offers Ahmadinejad, Rafsanjani, Larijani

& Ghoribaf; all bureaucrats of the old order with the same priorities.

Here’s the correct link to her bio, btw: Kim Zigfeld.

Here’s the article in which she writes ABOUT Russia! magazine, as a neo-Soviet propaganda vehicle. Supposedly it covers art, culture, tourism etc. Not a word about her writing for it.

Your medications are in serious need of adjustment and revision. Seek help immediately.

What makes me even more puzzled why some US conservatives are so blindlly anti-Putin. What do you think would happen if Putin is destroyed? Just look at the Russian elections statistics. Before Putin consolidated power, which party controlled Russian Parliament? Communists and by a big margin! The biggest loser of Putin’s rise to power were Russian Communists. You pine about lost freedoms Russia had in the 1990-s but in reality all through those years the largest party in Russian Parliament was Communists and Communist candidate came very close to defeating Yeltsin in 1996 for Presidency. So instead of freedom what we had in 1990-s Russia was a messed-up country tottering to succumb to Communism all over again! Obviously nobody wants those times to return, especially not the US conservatives, if they think clearly.

Putin is necessary as a transitional figure. The trick is to nudge Russia ever further into Democracy.

>dan :
Yuri Bezmenov would probably snort with cynical glee at the Time piece. And here comes “Ray” to support the FSB! Well played!
Dec 10, 2007 07:55 AM