Vladimir Putin. Personal website
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His people love him. He's got an 86% approval rating, so he must be doing something right.
Today is Putin's 62nd birthday and to mark the occasion Sky News has made a special report in which Katie Stallard travels the north west of the world's biggest country to ask Russians their opinions on their leader.
Click here for the report and videos: http://news.sky.com/story/1348559/putin-stronger-than-ever-as-he-turns-62
Alexei Alexeyevich talks to Sky's Katie Stallard
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The human side of the man..
I wonder if his secret service guys would let an unwelcome individual into the Kremlin??
I wonder if his secret service guys would let an unwelcome individual into the Kremlin??
The human side of the man..
I wonder if his secret service guys would let an unwelcome individual into the Kremlin??
Depends on how much Vodka they'd been drinking! -
;-)
Ten Good Reasons to Hate Putin
Russians love him. The Levada polling organisation (not especially friendly to Putin) has been polling about him for 15 years. His lowest rating – lowest rating – (did I say lowest?) was 61% in June 2000, these days it's in the 80s. (Question 1, Long Trend). Most Western politicians would sell their mothers into slavery to get up to 61%. But, asks the puzzled NYT reader, why would Russians like him? Results, that's why; check out the illustration. You'd like it too, if you had a leadership team half as effective.
He's popular outside too. Despite widespread belief in the servile Western media that Putin is “isolated”, a lot of countries are happy to invite him to visit. The photo that says it all is here.
He's macho. When he takes his photographer along in his “private” moments, it's to show him wrestling tigers, petting leopards, landing large fish, wearing tough guy headgear, hurling people around the judo mat. What do our leaders do in their photographed “private” moments? Golf.
Even the false rumours about him are macho. Affairs with beautiful young women, not pedophilia or secret homosexuality.
He's got a real army. With air defences, fighter planes, modern tanks, tough special forces. So a fun little air campaign won't be possible. Besides, Russia hasn't lost many wars, has it? And they never give up; just ask the Mongols.
Nukes. Russia has them; they work: Bulava, Topol and Sineva. Meanwhile, in the USA not so much.
He's Russian. And Russians are all horrible. Except for ***** Riot.
He's smarter than our team. Well... doesn't he prove this every day?
You can't bully him. Ditto.
He's not going anywhere. He's staying right there in Russia. And that, for the geographically challenged, is a great big country not very far from anywhere.
And one bonus reason. He knows gold is a better investment than US Treasuries.
And just one more. Russian babes say they like him. Imagine the campaign “Babes for (insert the name of your wearisome leader)”. Didn't think you could imagine it without feeling a bit nauseous. Well, OK, there was Obamagirl. But that was fake.
Ten Good Reasons to Hate Putin - Russia Insider
Ten Good Reasons to Hate Putin
Russians love him. The Levada polling organisation (not especially friendly to Putin) has been polling about him for 15 years. His lowest rating – lowest rating – (did I say lowest?) was 61% in June 2000, these days it's in the 80s. (Question 1, Long Trend). Most Western politicians would sell their mothers into slavery to get up to 61%. But, asks the puzzled NYT reader, why would Russians like him? Results, that's why; check out the illustration. You'd like it too, if you had a leadership team half as effective.
He's popular outside too. Despite widespread belief in the servile Western media that Putin is “isolated”, a lot of countries are happy to invite him to visit. The photo that says it all is here.
He's macho. When he takes his photographer along in his “private” moments, it's to show him wrestling tigers, petting leopards, landing large fish, wearing tough guy headgear, hurling people around the judo mat. What do our leaders do in their photographed “private” moments? Golf.
Even the false rumours about him are macho. Affairs with beautiful young women, not pedophilia or secret homosexuality.
He's got a real army. With air defences, fighter planes, modern tanks, tough special forces. So a fun little air campaign won't be possible. Besides, Russia hasn't lost many wars, has it? And they never give up; just ask the Mongols.
Nukes. Russia has them; they work: Bulava, Topol and Sineva. Meanwhile, in the USA not so much.
He's Russian. And Russians are all horrible. Except for ***** Riot.
He's smarter than our team. Well... doesn't he prove this every day?
You can't bully him. Ditto.
He's not going anywhere. He's staying right there in Russia. And that, for the geographically challenged, is a great big country not very far from anywhere.
And one bonus reason. He knows gold is a better investment than US Treasuries.
And just one more. Russian babes say they like him. Imagine the campaign “Babes for (insert the name of your wearisome leader)”. Didn't think you could imagine it without feeling a bit nauseous. Well, OK, there was Obamagirl. But that was fake.
Ten Good Reasons to Hate Putin - Russia Insider
Looks like you guys got the news, NATO lost the Ukraine, now NATO has to figure out how to get rid of the US, . . . Canada will fold up by ourselves
Yeah, lost, that and a lot more.
Despite US/Israel Demands, 'Isolated' Russia Offers Iran Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles | Zero Hedge
Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec said on Monday according to media reports, after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure.
Sergei Chemezov said Tehran was now considering the offer, TASS news agency reported.
Russia scrapped a contract to supply Iran with S-300 surface-to-air missiles under Western pressure in 2010, and Iran later filed a $4-billion international arbitration suit against Russia in Geneva, but the two countries remain allies.
The United States and Israel lobbied Russia to block the missile sale, saying it could be used to shield Iran's nuclear facilities from possible future air strikes.
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"As far as Iran is concerned, we offered Antey-2500 instead of S-300. They are thinking. No decision has been made yet," Chemezov was quoted as saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9ldge4nsI
Despite US/Israel Demands, 'Isolated' Russia Offers Iran Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles | Zero Hedge
Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec said on Monday according to media reports, after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure.
Sergei Chemezov said Tehran was now considering the offer, TASS news agency reported.
Russia scrapped a contract to supply Iran with S-300 surface-to-air missiles under Western pressure in 2010, and Iran later filed a $4-billion international arbitration suit against Russia in Geneva, but the two countries remain allies.
The United States and Israel lobbied Russia to block the missile sale, saying it could be used to shield Iran's nuclear facilities from possible future air strikes.
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"As far as Iran is concerned, we offered Antey-2500 instead of S-300. They are thinking. No decision has been made yet," Chemezov was quoted as saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9ldge4nsI
Good website. Good man who cares for animals and tries to save many wild animals from extinction with sympathetic conservation efforts. Meanwhile Obama is drone attacking children in Pakistan.
My main reasons for distrusting Putin is questions related to his involvement and potentially his orchestration of the apartment bombings in Russia in 1999, when he was Prime Minister, that seemed to be part of his campaign to ramp up public resentment against non Russian nationals, and to provide a motive to invade Chechnya and solidify his grip on power.
Three hundred Russians died in the bombing, and all evidence pointed to the Russian Security apparatus, of which Putin was a part prior to going into politics.
The other is his $200 million Italianate pleasure palace built in Sochi for his retirement. Although 'ownership' has no been parked with one of his cronies and oligarchs.
All this points to an individual of unlimited ambition, vanity, amorality and cruelty, despite a nondescript public profile.. I don't know that there are any limits on this type of personality.
The problem is dictators have a hard time retiring. Their past comes back to haunt them once they lose control of the instruments of power and its ability mould public opinion.
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