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• Vasyl Davydko replied on 02:42 AM on March 28, 2008
  In my opinion, the president of Russia is not elected by Russian citizens, but by "big fishes" like V.Putin and other ex- members of KGB. The matter is that the democracy doesn´t exist in Russia, it has not existed and it will not appear soon. The question we have to worry about is the quality of life of Russian people. But the worse is that European leaders like N.Sarkozy or A.Merkel take care of their own interests in Russia.
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• Vasyl Davydko replied on 06:42 AM on March 28, 2008
  In my opinion, the president of Russia is not elected by Russian citizens, but by "big fishes" like V.Putin and other ex- members of KGB. The matter is that the democracy doesn
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Michael Idov Writer, New York Magazine; Editor-in-Chief, RUSSIA!

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Michael Idov Writer, New York Magazine; Editor-in-Chief, RUSSIA!

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Michael Idov is a contributing writer at New York Magazine and the editor-in-chief of RUSSIA!, an English-language quarterly highlighting Russian art and design. He moved to the U.S. from the former U.S.S.R. at the age of 16, settling in Cleveland before moving to New York. After a degree in film studies from the University of Michigan, Michael embarked on a series of odd jobs that included anchoring a Russian news program and owning a failed coffee house, and ended with his joining the staff of New York. His writing has appeared in outlets as diverse as Slate, Vogue, Pitchfork Media, NPR, the New Republic and (in his native Russian) Moscow’s Bolshoi Gorod. Idov’s on-and-off band Spielerfrau, playing what the New Yorker dubbed “sophisticated, reverb-drenched rock with intelligent lyrics,” is set to release its second LP in April 2008. His first novel, “Ground Up,” will be published in early 2009 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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