----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Miale
To: D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: forthcoming book on novelist Vladimir Nabokov. ...

Real flaw in Putin's rule: his power is personal

By NINA KHRUSHCHEVA
TWO practical questions can be asked of any political system: First, what distinguishes the political parties? Second, who is in charge?

EDNOTE. The charm of this item is not the story but that the correspondent for the Singapore paper, Nina Khrushcheva (!), is witing a book on Nabokov.
 
No-- the charm was seeing a long, rather confused political post on the Nabokov forum!

Cheers,

Walter