Leonid Bershidsky: The US election’s echoes of 1996 Russia
Presidential candidate Donald Trump (C) speaks while Sen. Marco Rubio (L) (R-FL), and Ben Carson look on during the Republican Presidential Debate sponsored by Fox Business and the Wall Street Journal at the Milwaukee Theatre Nov. 10, 2015.
The very strange U.S. presidential election bears some surprising similarities to the 1996 campaign in Russia -- a momentous event that undermined a fragile democracy and led to the emergence of Vladimir Putin's dictatorial regime.
