Over at The Weekly Standard:
Keeper of the Sakharov Flame
Elena Bonner fears for the future of Russia.
by Cathy Young
01/14/2008, Volume 013, Issue 17
About the future, she thinks Russia is headed more in a Nazi-type direction than a Soviet/Communist one. She refers to the strong nationalistic element now current. Although they are not mentioned in the article, the red-shirted Nashi would be one additional example to support that analysis.
About the past (i.e. the failure of the 90s) she faults Yeltsin and the West as much as anyone. She was kind enough not to mention those American conservatives who thought the looting of Russia during the Yeltsin years just a phase similar to our own robber baron years.
The article looks to me like an important one, and it all seems to ring true.
It probably requires a subscription to read.