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I agree with your sentiments there Azred.
John D and Sir Degrader - if it was a small country of little consequence I would probably agree with you, but Russia is still a country with a large enough influence to cause problems.
Look at the Ukranian elections and Russian threats to intervene there - in the end, we were lucky and nothing happened, but I think the world should be taking more of an interest in the gradual, but inexorable, tightening of state control that has been occurring in the last couple of years.
A little international political pressure now could do a lot to alleviate a situation which might be so much worse in several years time...
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