The New York Times to Publish 'Kremlin Rules,' a Multi-Part Series on Democracy in...

The New York Times to Publish 'Kremlin Rules,' a Multi-Part Series on Democracy in Today's Russia

Series to be Translated Into Russian on a Community Blog on
LiveJournal.com
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
The New York Times announced today that beginning on Sunday, Feb.
24, it will publish "Kremlin Rules," a multi-part series that examines
democracy in Russia under President Vladimir V. Putin. The first
article in the series will be written by Clifford J. Levy, The Times's
Moscow bureau chief.

The series will be translated and posted on "New York Times in
Russian," an online community page hosted by LiveJournal. The
community page, created by Times journalists, will offer a unique
perspective from the voices of Russian citizens who are invited to
share their opinions and comments about the series on the site. Many
of the comments from the Russian site will be translated into English
and posted on NYTimes.com, giving Americans and Russians an unusual
perspective on the views of one another.

The first installment looks at the city and residents of Nizhny
Novgorod, once a place of liberalism and now the definitive example of
Putin's legacy and control over the government. The series shows how
the long arm of Putin's politics has affected this city, and the rest
of Russia, as the nation faces the March 2 presidential elections.

Levy writes: "On the eve of a presidential election in Russia that
itself was all but fixed in December, when Mr. Putin selected his
close aide, Dmitri A. Medvedev, as his successor, Nizhny Novgorod
stands as a stark example of how Mr. Putin and his followers have
established what is essentially a one-party state."

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