5/19 “Yushenkov himself was shot dead in Moscow in April 2003, just hours after registering his liberal political party for the elections in December of that year that landed the Putin-backed United Russia party a parliamentary majority it has held ever since.”
There is so much mythmaking about US policy in '80s-'90s that it is hard to conceive a deliberate policy against, e.g., relegalization of Solidarity in Poland or Baltic independence (as well as against other democratic movements further east). But it's in the record. 2/2
1
Marina Salye
Decolonize Russia
https://twitter.com/EricDChenoweth/status/1519395679684243457
