Responsibility of the elite, or Who brought us to such a life
"Destroy the already quite established myth about the historical inevitability of a special Russian path - I set such a goal. Apologues of the theory that in our latitudes, no form of government, except hard to authoritarian, has, has and will never have a chance of success, at first glance, very convincing arguments give. Say, the Bogo-bearer’s people was not able to understand and accept all the advantages of democracy and himself delegated their constitutional rights to a narrow group of persons.
I do not agree. I think that people who found themselves at the foot of power during the Yeltsin rule were the reason for the current state of affairs in Russia. It was self -interest and lack of strategic thinking of the then "elites that" that led the country to such a disappointing day. They also invented the myth that quite justifying their actions about the historical inevitability of a special Russian path ... "
Alexander Ryklin