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| | The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03) |
 | | Preobrazhensky was "set free," as he describes it, just weeks before the coup. |
 | | After the USSR collapsed, the KGB stagnated for a period, renamed itself, and now is staging a comeback, exemplified by the rise to the presidency of Putin, a former KGB chief. |
 | | Today Russia is going backward "very, very fast," Preobrazhensky warns, ticking off an array of civil rights that are under threat, from media freedom to the war in Chechnya. |
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