EMPIRE OF LIES? IS RUSSIA A FAILED STATE? The author gives an accurate depiction

http://skibinsky.com/no-russian/THE EMPIRE OF LIES? IS RUSSIA A FAILED STATE?

The author gives an accurate depiction of how Ukraine escaped the Moscow Mafia. But is he correct in his somewhat colloquial analysis of the russian government? I think so. Economists agree. Although not in such unpleasant terms.

Too bad. I had great hopes for russia. I love russians and russian culture. But can they do what the Ukrainian’s have done? Throw out the mafia? I don’t think so. Half the country is on the dole.