NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?

Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters — A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimism for the future (Gorbachev’s grandchildren — March 24), could be misplaced. He felt the belief “fell into a trap of relying on elites to drive both political and social reforms”.

The trap has, over the past three or so years, been recognised by Western donors to pro-democracy Civil Society Organisations (CSO) in Zimbabwe.

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