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I should have thought about that. Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

@ iCake:
The same problem is in the US...

Thanks for that information. I didn't understand Russian history as well as I thought I did.

But I still don't get that it's very important for a country to be a democracy. Lots of countries have...

Yes, Russia is a democracy. Russia has fair elections and the government listens to the people. In the US, if we don't like what the government is doing then we can protest and sign petitions. The...