lean out of the window

Yes, I think the situation is more or less the samethat there was in Italy when Berlusconi was on power.There are some slight differences although..
1) Russia was (and still is) one of the greatest powerin the world,and the power that the president of russia can controlis muchmore big that the power the italian minister cancontrol..
2) in Italy there has never been a plebiscitary love for berlusconi:half of the italians loved him (thing are changing now)and half of the italians didn't at all. This factdidn't give him the possibility to control everything,despite the fact that he controlled all the medias
3)Putin is much much more intelligent thanberlusconi..it means it is more and more scarying teme..
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the only thing i don't understand is..you want to became a journalist,it doesn't mean only write in agood way, and read a lot,and about wonderful subjects, as you already do)), but also seek for the truth beyond the curtains of appearence..
i think a state in wich a journalist likePolitkovskayais killed, for her positions against the state in the cecenian situation, is dangerous. and i think it should worry you, not only for the "ideal" of truth, but also for your own future, as a journalist (because i'm sure you'll became one).
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and then there is litvinenko, and all this.I don't think italy has been better, there were (and still there are ) so many strange affairs, our recentstory is full of mysterious killings, (even of a prime minister!) of state terrorism , of links between state and mafia,then before we had fascism(!)...

so i'm not really here to talk to you,who live in the"poor lacking of democracy russia", from my "perfectlydemocratic country named italy" because that's not true..and i will not tell you bull shits about "it was better before in USSR" and all that..but i just think one should worry when democracy starts to fail,,in ANY country..and that is the situation now in russia..since you're a journalist, i would really suggest youto read the books written by Anna Politkovskaya...(...)
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even if perhaps you already know more about her than there is written there.. but if you don't, think about reading it..you're a lady like her, you want to become what she was..
if you don't, then who else?

That a letter I received in the morning. Since that just may be a month ago I started to try to realize what is going on in my own country in my own time – that letter was an extra push. I started late – I mean to live. I started and I didn’t like it. And I dived to another world – which I was happy to discover and sorry to loose. Old black-and-white films, middle age literature, silver century poems… I was everything but not the day which is here. I didn’t read newspapers, didn’t listen to the radio, didn't watch tv. I didn't need. I had another life. My journalistic education was a formality.
Just some times ago I asked myself – where do I live, when do I live and what do I live.
Universe always send us a help. I met one political historic person who shouted me about this world.

And this morning – it was this letter.
Thank u.