Wednesday, July 13, 2005

"Ignoring the facts..."

Yulia Latynina (always a favorite pundit of mine) has a great column in today's Moscow Times about how dangerous it is that people surrounding Russia's leaders are afraid to share bad news with them. The final graf is right on the money:

The Kremlin is a lot like a driver whose windshield has been replaced by a television screen. Instead of the mountain switchback ahead of him, the driver sees only an open highway. Under such conditions, the joy ride won't last long.

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