Russian political life far from Putin and Kremlin

NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — In far-off Moscow, the authorities are fond of suggesting that only a spoiled elite in the capital carp about eroding freedoms, controlled elections and a gloom they compare to the later days of the Soviet Union.

"There are people who think that the atmosphere in the country is suffocating," Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Prime Minister Vladi­mir Putin, told television interviewers last week, "while others want three percentage points off their taxes to get their farm going."

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Michael A. Fletcher 10 Oct, 2011

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