Putin became a Russian president ten years ago. A bloody "Putin's era" began. The Editor-in-Chief of the Lithuanian magazine IQ.The Economist and a political scientist Vladimiras Laucius, does not see any positive results in policies pursued by Putin, and now by Medvedev and their clique, the Baltic news agency "Delfi" writes.

It’s no big secret that the Russian government has a wide foundation in cronyism. At the same time, cronyism a term that is often bandied about without much substance, as the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the Russian government makes it difficult to articulate where exactly it comes from – and, consequently, the extent to which democracy in the country is suffering.

La Russophobe: The Sochi 2014 Madness must end Now!