Natalia Solzhenitsyn, widow of the renowned Russian dissident, is at it again. She has again rejected the idea that Russia under Vladimir Putin is a dictatorship and labelled those who think so as liars or simply plain ignorant. In September 2000, her husband, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the former political prisoner who played a crucial role in exposing the Soviet Gulag, told Russian television that Putin should be praised for “the prudence and soundness of his decisions and judgments. He has a