Mother Russia: One Death Closer to Putin's Image

I hope Anne Applebaum has got some class A bodyguards. Here's the NPR take on it: Boris Nemtsov, a top pro-Western reformer in the 1990s, says that's because Putin and his allies think other countries are run just like Russia, and that in a powerful country such as the United States, the government must have control of the judicial system and the media. "No independent court system, no opposition, no independence of press," Nemtsov says. "This is all a special cynical game against Russia. [Putin] believes in that."