Of course they do not add up to Western democracy.
That's a rate much higher than in any other major Western democracy.
On the other hand, this is not a traditional Western democracy.
Many students are well read and familiar with Western democracy.
This is why Russia will never become a western democracy.
By the turn of the century the practice had spread to most Western democracies.
It is on these issues that the western democracies must fight back.
But by that time most Western democracies had separated church from state.
"But the Western democracies speak over our shoulders to the face behind us," he says.
The trappings of a Western democracy are all in place.