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" , , , " - McFaul . The Liberty Doctrine: Reclaiming the purpose of American power. Policy Review April & May 2002 ( http://www.stanford.edu/~mcfaul/publications.html  - )

"  [!]   [ ]  , - ..." - "This unconstrained Russian state also has destroyed Western wealth and discouraged investment by arbitrarily enforcing environmental regulations against foreign oil investors, shutting out foreign partners in the development of the Shtokman gas field, and denying a visa to the largest portfolio investor in Russia, British citizen William Browder." April 2007 "Liberal Is as Liberal Does" MICHAEL MCFAUL.

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"... even one with a liberal in the Kremlin, would act differently... celebrated the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, worked with Europe to weaken the Belarusian dictator, Lukashenko, and cooperated more closely with the US in pressuring Tehran... [encouraging Uzbek leader Islam Karimov to close down the American base in Uzbekistan, ... threatening war with Georgia]. And all of these policies would have advanced Russian national interests." - "Liberal Is as Liberal Does."

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, , ..." - "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" M.MCFAUL, Journal of Democracy Volume 11, Number 3, July 2000 pp. 19-33

, , - RUSSIA : REBUILDING THE IRON CURTAIN / HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 17, 2007 - : .

" , " - "a period of Soviet suppression, brutality, mass murder."

" ( ) . ... (80-)  ( abomination )" - "I left my native country of Hungary because of Soviet occupation, and later I became one of the leading anti-Soviet voices in Congress...

" , - ... 13 , ..." - "I am profoundly disturbed by his [..] pattern of abuse and repression of dissidents, independent journalists and in fact anyone who opposes him. ...13 journalists critical of Putin have died under mysterious circumstances since he took office..." - !

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, "" ." - "The former CEO of oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sits in a Siberian prison on phony charges" - .
" - ." "I urge Mr. Putin to rethink his skewed vision of ... Russia" -  !

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Ƹ " - "This draconian use of Russia’s energy wealth to enforce its policy preferences simply cannot be tolerated" -  .

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" - "Putin’s crackdown on recent peaceful opposition protests is haunting" -  Ĩ!

" - ... . . 1999 2000 " - "Russians today are richer ... than at any time in their very long history ... look at all the fabulous economic growth after all that is happening in Russia today. Fabulous. Fantastic. It all has to do with sound economic policies taken in 1999 and 2000 and oil prices" -  !

" 10 . 32 200 , 1995 - 1999 30 200" - "under Mr. Putin orruption has increased tenfold according to INDEM [ 1990 . ., . ], the average murder rate from 1995 to 1999 was 30,200. Under Mr. Putin it has been 32,200" -  - ... !

" - . [] 40%. . ?" - "you have to reject the budget that the President[Bush] has proposed to you. He calls for a 40% decrease in money for democracy assistance to Russia. I just don’t understand it. What signal are you sending to the human rights activists if you cut the budget?" - ...  - , .

"2008 .   . , , -, " - "2008... is a pivotal moment. We can provide technology and support to help expose fraud in the selection. We have done it around the world, through the OSCE, through exit polls, through Russian monitoring groups" -  2008 . , .

"... 1993 .,   " - "... Putin has not radically violated the 1993 constitution, cancelled elections or arrested thousands of political opponents" -  .

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, " - "During Putin’s second term, the government has all but abandoned the pursuit of liberal economic reforms, because oil revenues..." -    !

" " - "A more democratic Russia would have grown even faster" -  !

" " - "Decision-making within the Russian state has become more centralized" -  .
" " - "giving Putin credit for Russia’s growing economy is silly" -   ?
" , , " - "Putin appeared to take charge of the war (), repelling the Chechen rebels() who had invaded neighboring Dagestan and then ordering Russian soldiers back into Chechnya" -  ,  ?

" , , , " - "The economy, political stability, and national security all seemed to be improving with Putin’s arrival as prime minister and then president" - ... 2007 !

" , " - "Putin pursues polices that he believes serve Russia’s national interests, with little attention paid to American interests" -  ?

" . . ..." - "A better funded Jackson Foundation could make direct grants to the activists and organizationsin Russia. Direct personal engagement of Russian democratic activists also matters. If Putin steps down after his second term as the constitution calls for, then Russian democracy has a chance for renewal. Bush and his government must focus attention and greater resources on those Russian societal actors..." -  . .

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" - "Democrats in Russia are still praying that we do not forget them and do not abandon our mission to promote liberty everywhere in the world, including Russia" -  , !

" 2007 . $43 . " - "the budget for civil society in Russia for fiscal year 2007 is $43 million" -  ...

" ... ." " " - "the xenophobia happened to the Georgians ... they [, ] literally just rounded up school children and threw them out of the country" -  !
- "We have to stand firm with our Georgian friends" - 
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- Mr. BILIRAKISM: "What is your estimate of the level of wealth accumulated by the leadership in the Kremlin under Mr.Putin?" - 
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: " . . , , " - Mr. SATTER: "Putin himself is believed to be immensely wealthy. Nobody can determine exactly how wealthy, but just judging on the basis of circumstantial evidence it is certainly on the level of the highest levels of the Saudi Arabian leadership" -  !

" ?" - Mr. BILIRAKIS: "How did he acquire the wealth?" -  , ?

: "... "1 001 ". , , " - Mr. SATTER: "...if you can control the flow of revenue to any organization the myriad ways in which you can skim off revenue would fill 1,001 Arabian nights. They are geniuses in finding ways to divert income, to set up front companies and to create companies staffed by their mistresses, their relatives, and their children" -  ... ! ... , .

: " , . , , . .. ... " - Mr. MCFAUL: "I think the real story ... is that we have had the renationalization of things worth owning under Mr. Putin, and the two biggest ones of course are Gazprom and Rosneft. The head of it, and this is the problem ... Mr. Medvedev[!]. Igor Sechin is the chairman of the board who is the Deputy Chief of Administration for Mr. Putin, so what his take is and how he gets his money we don’t know because these companies once were much more transparent than they are today as a result of these transformations" -  ! . - , 2007 .

" ... , ..." - Mr. MCFAUL: "On the former Soviet republics, just briefly I would just say we cannot let Georgia and Ukraine fail. ... [If these two democratic experiments] fail then the Russians have won..." -  , .

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A P P E N D I X (MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING RECORD) - :

" " - "The growing trend toward authoritarianism in Russia is extremely alarming..." - !
" " " "" - "during the presidency of V.Putin we have seen Russia’s Freedom House rating lowered from "partly free" to "not free." - - " "?
" " - "...a growing cadre of former security officials appointed to key positions in Mr. Putin’s administration." - !
" , , , " - "the increase in crimes of hatred and intolerance nature in Russia, where they are perpetrated particularly against Chechens, "guest workers" from Central Asia, foreigners, and Jews." -  !

" . . 2005 . 2006 ." - "According to Deputy Prosecutor-General Viktor Grin, the number of occurrences of hate crimes in 2006 doubled from 2005" -  40 80?
" , , , , " - "...there have been recent declines in religious freedom and... they are extremely worrying. ...discrimination against members of minority religions, including Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Hare Krishna Society, Pentecostal churches, and the Mormon Church..." -  - !

" " - "while the Russian Orthodox Church has received such increases in support that it is now a de facto official religion ..." -  .
" " - "the trafficking of women and children abroad for sexual purposes..." -  , , ?
" " - "under Putin we have seen a return to state control of key sectors of the economy..." -  Russia state control.

- ( Positive Economic Trends )  -  .
 
. (GDP growth %) :


1999 - 6,4       2000 - 10,0       2001 - 5,1       2002 - 4,7       2003 - 7,3       2004 - 7,2       2005 - 6,4       2006 - 6,6
(Foreign Direct Investment $) :
1999 - 3309    2000 - 2714      2001 -  2748    2002 - 3461     2003 - 7958    2004 - 15 444  2005 - 15 151  2006 - 2006-30000

( Inflation CPI % ) :


1999 - 85,6%  2000 - 20,7%    2001 - 18,6%  2002 - 15,1%   2003 - 12,0%  2004 - 11,7%   2005 - 10,9%  2006 - 9,7%
( Budget Balance % GDP ) :
1999 - 3,6       2000 - 0,8         2001 - 3,0      2002 - 1,4        2003 - 1,7       2004 - 4,3        2005 - 7,5       2006 - 7,4
$ USA FCReserves ( $bn, incl. gold ) :
1999 - 12,5     2000 - 28,0        2001 - 36,6    2002 - 47,8      2003 - 76,9      2004 - 124,5    2005 - 182,2   2006 - 303.0
( Stabilization Fund $bn ) :
—                  —                     —                 —                   —                   2004 - 18,7      2005 - 29,0     2006 - 90.2
( StockMarketIndex RTS rub ) :


1999 - 175,3    2000 - 143,3      2001 - 260,1  2002 - 359,1    2003 - 567,3     2004 - 614,1    2005 - 1125,6  2006 - 1921.9
( Real income per capita annual % change) :
1999 - 11,9      2000 - 13,4        2001 - 10,0    2002 - 10,8     2003 - 14,6       2004 - 11,2      2005 - 9,3       2006 - 10,0
( Unemployment % ) :
1999 - 12,4      2000 - 10,7        2001 - 9,1      2002 - 8,0       2003 - 8,3         2004 - 8,13      2005 - 7,58     2006 - 6.6
( Poverty % population ) :


1999  41,5       2000 - 29,0        2001 - 27,3    2002 - 24,2      2003 - 20,6       2004 - 17,8      2005 - 15,8     2006 - 14.5

(Sources: World Bank, Goskomstat, IMF, RIA Novosti, RTS Index, EBRD, Economist, other news sources)


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