Michael Khodarkovsky: Glory to the ‘Russian world’
Imagine the unimaginable: Suppose an American supreme court chief justice asserts in an interview that "slavery in the United States, despite its extremes, was a principle bond that maintained the deep unity of the nation." Now replace "slavery in the United States" with "serfdom in Russia," and you have the exact quote from an article by the chairman of Russia’s Constitutional Court, Valery D. Zorkin, published on Sept. 30.