'Human tragedy': How Trump is making 'extreme cruelty routine' — not unlike Putin: analysis

'Human tragedy': How Trump is making 'extreme cruelty routine' — not unlike Putin: analysis

When Boris Yeltsin was serving as Russia's first post-Soviet Union, post-communist president during the 1990s, optimists were hoping that Russia would become a full-fledged liberal democracy. But it didn't work out that way, and Russia moved in an increasingly authoritarian direction under his successor, Vladimir Putin.In an opinion column published on May 28, the New York Times' M. Gessen makes a comparison between Putin's presidency in Russia …