Did Bigoted Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Just Write His Own Undoing By Flaming President Medvedev?
We’ve all heard the stories of Moscow’s anti-gay Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who’s been responsible for, year after year, denying gay rights marchers permits for parades and having them arrested when they foil his plans. He’s also the guy who’s on a campaign to ban condoms, insisting they are the propaganda of homosexuals. But now Yuri might’ve sank his own ship by doing the unthinkable: pissing off the Kremlin. Yuri took his disdain for sitting puppet President Dmitri Medvedev to the newspaper pages, the NYT reports, perhaps an even stupider move since the Kremlin operates so much of the media there. In a recent article, Mr. Luzhkov appeared to criticize the president for indecisiveness, while seeming to call for his predecessor, Vladimir V. Putin, now prime minister, to return to the presidency. The article touched off the biggest political quarrel Russia has seen in nearly a decade, raising new speculation about the relationship between Russia’s two leaders. It has also prompted an all-out
