NewsMax.com: Soros Says Russia No Longer a Democracy

Well, Russia never was a democracy. Only one nation on earth qualifies as a pure democracy, and that's Switzerland. What Russia had been, and is no longer, is a republic.

Subject to differing semantics, for once I agree with George Soros. I even agree with him on the remedy he proposed: that the Group of Eight (G-8) go back to being Seven and dismiss Russia from their number. Soros laments that, of course, that won't happen, because too many European nations depend heavily on Russian oil. That's easily fixed, of course--but only if Europeans get over their fear of all things nuclear, and specifically of nuclear power. And the same thing goes for our dependence on a backward monarchy that pays remittances to terrorists and then--the kicker--blames the Jews for sending forth those same terrorists. But I doubt that George Soros and I would ever see eye to eye on that one.