Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Doug Schoen: Putin is undermining Ukraine’s democracy — and Obama is letting him
Vladimir Putin’s disdain for democracy is no secret.
He has quashed dissent at home, and the passage on Tuesday of a new “Blogger Law” is only the latest move by the Kremlin to control media and police the internet. As Arch Puddington and David Kramer of Freedom House have put it, “Putin has based his presidency on the suppression of the political opposition, and he has achieved this by marginalizing opposition parties and by relentlessly crushing civil society.”