Igor Yurgens, head of the Kremlin’s main think tank, said the country needs a political thaw, like the one under Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s. But the soft-spoken Yurgens also praised authorities for controlling the political system, especially outcomes of elections, saying it was essential to prevent hard-line nationalists from taking power. Indeed, he sounded oddly similar to liberal pundits of the Soviet era during his interview with […]