Ich bin ein ehemaliges Mitglied des russischen Parlaments. Amerika ist näher an Putins Russland als Sie wissen

Written by a former member of the Duma, this piece compares the way Putin used the law to solidify autocratic control over his country, with what’s happening in the US. The writer singles out the Supreme Court ruling allowing Trump to mass fire civil service workers as akin to Putin canceling gubernatorial elections in 2004. It diagnoses the internal mechanisms of modern autocracy.

With a leader that is just as corrupt and violent but even more incompetent than Putin. I hope the Europeans learn from this lesson