This article can be found here.
October 17, 2009
Clifford Levy, the author of this article, does not hide much bias when exploring the Russian government's attempt to emulate Chinese Communist Party. He attacks the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, by comparing him to an "envious underachiever" who is "ashamed" of his country's poor transition into a capitalist economy. He hints that Putin is capable of rash, irrational decisions when throwing his nation into fundamental political and economical changes. Levy adds that Putin does not wish to mimic the Communist Party of the old USSR, or even the one under Chinese President Hu-Jintao. Instead, he only wishes to promote a government with the utopian ideal of being able to maintain single party dominance while supporting a flourishing economy, something China has only recently- and probably temporarily- been capable of. In past years, before he he quickly decided to give up on creating a more capitalist system, Putin haphazardly lowered government controls on all businesses, making these completely dependent organizations suddenly fend for themselves, rather than being eased into that position. Recently, the article cites that he has been trying out a new "Russian Conservative" policy. Again, Levy offers these examples to his readers to solidify the belief that Putin's political views are fundamentally flawed.
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