Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...member of the committee, says he showed up to the meeting anyway to determine whether any reform was likely to be made...
...just not going to happen," says Burton of the larger scale reform proposals. He urged the committee to focus on the areas it was created to look at. "This doesn't address elections; this doesn't address impeachment," he said of Smith's plan...
Even Brian Smith says large-scale reform will be an uphill battle...
Above all, watch for confusion. Putin's reform plans are not yet ready. German Gref, a longtime Putin associate, says the blueprint for the future of Russia will be ready in April. Another ambitious plan, this time to revamp the country's bureaucracy, is months away. But that is only the start. Invaders are not the only ones who get bogged down in Russia's vast expanses. So do reformers. They are defeated by geography and by the millions of apparatchiks who are masters at blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms...
Should we be afraid? He has done some things (like fighting a bloodbath war in Chechnya) and said some things (like his talk of a strong state) that give pause. He has said other things, about economic reform and democratic liberties, that encourage. He has deliberately left a great deal ambiguous. He has used the brief official campaign not as an occasion for exposure but as a careful exercise in saying the right things to the right people. Putin, say those who have followed his rise, has always been extremely good at that...