Russia's Political Generation Gap

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Channel: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty · 2012 · News & Politics

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Russia's upcoming presidential election has exposed a generation gap between younger  and older voters.  Aleksandr Avanesov, the 56-year-old director of a French choir in Moscow, wants Vladimir Putin to remain in power to avoid a repeat of the chaos of 1990s. Many of his young students, on the other hand, want to see an end Putin's authoritarian system. Video by Alexander Kulygin, RFE/RL's Russian Service

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