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Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:38AM (#24517315)
I wouldn't describe the landscape of extractive-government in Russia as "state control" over enterprise: it's not that the public offices themselves are overstepping their bounds, it's that the holders of those public offices are corrupt and/or compromised.

Yes, this is splitting-hairs, but the Russian Federation isn't anything like North Korea - nor remotely Communist.

Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by rsynnott on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:41AM (#24517355)
Oh, yeah, I should probably have been clearer; I don't mean to imply that it's similar to the situation in the USSR.