Apparently the Russian People enjoyed their recent chat with Vlad. Yer man remains extremely popular — still reflecting, I suspect, the view of the man-on-the-Moscow-street who, asked his opinion of Putin by CNN years back, replied in English: “Yah, he is good. Russia needs a strong, cruel man to be in charge.” ;>
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 pm Mountain Time
Hee hee. Da, da. :}
Apparently the Russian People enjoyed their recent chat with Vlad. Yer man remains extremely popular — still reflecting, I suspect, the view of the man-on-the-Moscow-street who, asked his opinion of Putin by CNN years back, replied in English: “Yah, he is good. Russia needs a strong, cruel man to be in charge.” ;>
December 4th, 2009 at 1:20 am Mountain Time
This is relevant to my interests. A good piece that may perhaps put some of that into perspective:
http://seansrussiablog.org/2009/11/29/moscow-in-perspective/
December 4th, 2009 at 6:59 am Mountain Time
Very, very interesting. Thanks, pthread.