Yeah, I'd heard about that private property law but wasn't sure it had gone through. I'm glad it finally has. That should have put the final nail in the coffin of the Commies-are-secretly-still-running-the-show-in-Russia conspiracies but this thread is proof that it hasn't. The nectar for free enterprise / poison kool-aid for communism is now flowing. Russia will soon be an economic super power. The Russian bear has traded in his Red Army uniform for a power suit. Where he would have once crossed swords with Uncle Sam he'll now do lunch.
That is not to say that a lot of the old politicians who espoused Communisim in order to get a cushy government position aren't there; they are. But those were never the true believers; they just wanted a secure job with a pension. You'd find these types in the U.S. - or any country for that matter. They are the beauracracy of the medeocre and they're everywhere. They are shoddy material for a new world order.
NaW.
(Turning a half-baked philosophy by a gloomy German who never held down a job into a form of government? - What were you Russians thinking?...)
First it was a Western Intellectual experiment on Russia (as the guinie pig of the world....thanks). The key now is to turn that Bear into the Double Headed Eagle.