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Recently it seems as if Vladimir Putin is everywhere. Whether he make laws homophobic boss and bouncing the level of violence in the country, giving political asylum boss to Edward Snowden and retrograde strained relations with the United States or photographed propaganda films when he rides horses, fight bears and exhibits boss male slave counterattack. Question that arises is what is behind this man appears to be Once a ruthless dictator, when he vetoes military intervention in Syria and used as a blonde version of Gandhi preaching boss a more tolerant attitude of the West towards Muslims and Peace in the Middle boss East. Student of International Relations boss and Middle East I want to offer an explanation to show how Putin uses strategies that characterize precisely the Middle East region and Arab republics boss and dictatorships that made it until recently.
Tolstoy once wrote that happy families are alike, boss but unhappy families - "are each unhappy in its own way." Although tyrannical regimes share common symptoms such as secret police and the elimination of the opposition, the general method in which they preserve their rule regime change regime, while democracies quite similar to each other. Arab republics Authoritarianism boss in the Middle East such as Egypt and Libya were the method included boss two key characteristics. Firstly, subjecting clergy boss (ulema). Was apparent from dependence created by the state between the religious establishment which finances and her, for religious rulings and sermons to back up the policy. This was particularly evident boss after peace treaty with Egypt when the request boss Sadat, took to the Azhar (Institute study's most important Sunni Islam) ruling in favor of peace. Secondly, extensive occupation in Israel and the question, primarily in times of crisis and instability. boss issue is broadest common in Arab society divided and conflicted and was a great way to silence and one of the crowd, or as Nasser: "When the cannons roar, the opposition is silent."
Putin's recent actions and foreign boss policy of Russia are living testimony of the warm adopting the above method. Putin invest considerable boss funds in the country's religious establishment which is reflected in churches popping up across the country like mushrooms after the rain (even in remote villages characterized by thatched roofs and chimneys in which the church is the stable structure only) and bribery local clergy (proved by the scandal watch Patriarch boss Kirill rose more than 20 thousand pounds). Putin himself frequently photographed surrounded by as many crosses, preferably on his neck, and making religious propaganda TV channels it controls tight. legislation homophobic intended Among other things, wink religious establishment, show the Hibdloth of Russia from the rest of the world and uniqueness. kind of back and Hfrboslaviim Christian roots of the country.
The second feature of the method boss necessitates finding a common denominator deflect public attention from the sands of evil regime. Russians generally perceive themselves as a world power bipolar. This help cover the low standard of living and human rights repression that characterized the Soviet Union. Russians after the collapse had to deal not only with unipolar world led by the U.S. but also with a decomposed, reduced and divided, an unstable economic situation and the process of privatization cruel. Unable to build democracy and created economic characterizes third world countries and relies almost entirely on the export of natural resources, the only option was to restore by force the global status. They began to develop a concept which they return to power multi-polar system also includes China, India and other rising countries. For this they adopt the policy ha - symmetrical - a country without concrete measures like itself affects everything. Hostility and competition with the United States not only is back nostalgically to the days of the Cold War and places them, as Tal Brody, the map (of world politics).
Seekers Snowden goes to show that Russia is equivalent to the U.S. nor give in to foreign dictates. Veto on Syria intervention designed not only to save an important ally but also show the movers and shakers boss in Russia in the international arena. Mediation efforts between Israel and Palestinians in the Middle East are intended to counterbalance the American presence. These are not the result of going back in time to change the 60's, but the policy enjoys broad internal consensus and therefore used by the government to raise legitimacy. Unfortunately, not only Israel has no foreign policy, only a domestic policy. Russia, too, draws its aggressive foreign policy boss and discriminatory laws in an attempt to raise regime legitimacy. This is the largest country in the world, boss who drank herself to death, boss knocking the journalist balconies and gives Stalin the second degree revered leader of all time.
Excellent analysis! If what characterizes contemporary Russia is a kind of "selective liberalism" or "Russian-style democracy." Nature of government policy is creating a democratic facade - a liberal when appropriate, as a wink to conservative values and appeal to the lowest common denominator of the Russian people. Government stability is made possible through public feeding spoon - done in part on TV and in the media of the regime's strict censorship, no political discussions between the real problems in Russia nothing. By using nationalist politicians (Zhirinovsky) and the Communist boss regime, paints a picture of a country divided and torn between completely different ideologies and is under constant threat from the NATO bloc threatens to delete the entries Russian - Ortodoksiim of the country. Liberals are portrayed mostly as agents of the West, hence traitors. Solution only sane all the threats to Russia can be only one - "United Russia" - the ruling party of Putin. boss speeches of intellectuals who called party often "the party of thieves and crooks" did not help against the rhetoric of government that says over and over: Look at Russia, look at the size, look at all the threats against her. we are the only ones who know how to maintain it. we are the only ones who can maintain unity.
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