Let me defend that statement a bit; the reforms promised are incredibly moving and make us think of happy freedom-lovers, but much of what follows their proclamations is less transparent. First, they repeatedly use the phrase "legitimate way" like that actually carries weight. What's more, the phrase is used as hedging in response to one of the audience-asked questions: "I repeat, however, that everything should be done in a legitimate way." Second, the *massive* amounts of appointments being given out. After a huge chunk of the government had just been forcefully removed from power, the ones left in power are given the full responsibility of *choosing* the successors? They even try to justify this notion by the argument that they had been voted into power by the people and are thereby representative. There are two things wrong with this statement. Good thing all of those officials had been the best of the best...oh, wait. It's the same group of people voting for the successors. Second, no way the public can have faith in their government at this point (currently, nothing had been done about the rebels yet, either and the criminal organizations hadn't even been shut-down).
The whole of the "new" platform appears to be based on transparency and true democracy, yet they continue to sway away from it and back into the bloated, foggy governmental cesspool that had just caused all the problems. Now, I'm not sure why they went in this direction--as at this point, I'm unaware of any gains they'd, well, gain--but it clearly is fairly hippocritical, if not only poorly planned.
The honesty about not having read any of the notes leading up to the Duma's session was quite refreshing though.
Picture for the lolcats (THE RUPPIES--Russian Hippies)
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