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If an American PR whiz had not helped Yanukovych, would Ukraine still be intact?
A British scholar wrote an eye-opening book a decade ago on the tactics that candidates in the former Soviet Union used to win elections.
Andrew Wilson’s “Virtual Politics” became an instant classic in the fields of political science and Russian studies.
His premise was that election-campaign managers in the former Soviet Union used an array of tricks far vaster and dirtier than campaign managers in the West to assure client victories.
A key difference between a campaign manager in the former Soviet Union and the West, …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
