Vladimir Putin was a lieutenant colonel in the Russian KGB. He went on to become the president of Russia. Now his nominee is president while he is the prime minister. This gives him direct power or at all events power. Vlad is rated as the best ruler Russia has had since Peter the Great. This is from real people. The main stream media are moderately abusive but then the main stream media is largely owned and controlled by Jews. The Wiki is, sometimes a curious exception to the generality.
OligarchsThe Frame-Up of Vladimir Putin
Did he have Anna Politkovskaya murdered because she talked too much? The main stream media are keen on the idea. Evidence? Forget it. Berezovsky and Nevzlin [ both Jews ] are plausible candidates. Paul Klebnikov wrote about Berezovsky then he was murdered. Cause and effect? Berezovsky would say no.
Putin Plans War on Oligarchs
Is this why he is getting a bad press every time he has some one murdered? It could be. They are a nasty bunch of crooks. Details at
The
Making Of A Neo-KGB State
The Economist is in propaganda mode, telling us the Vlad is a
wrong one. You are fully at liberty to believe them if you want. I do not.
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Yet Mr Yeltsin, though he let the agency survive, did not use it as his power
base. In fact, the KGB was cut off from the
post-Soviet redistribution of assets. Worse still, it was upstaged and
outwitted by a tiny group of opportunists, many of them Jews (not a people
beloved by the KGB), who became known as the
oligarchs. Between them, they grabbed most of the country's natural resources
and other privatised assets. KGB officers watched
the oligarchs get super-rich while they stayed cash-strapped and sometimes
even unpaid.
Some officers did well enough, but only by
offering their services to the oligarchs. To protect themselves from rampant
crime and racketeering, the oligarchs tried to privatise parts of the
KGB. Their large and costly security departments
were staffed and run by ex-KGB officers. They also
hired senior agency men as “consultants”. Fillip Bobkov, the head of the Fifth
Directorate (which dealt with dissidents), worked for a media magnate,
Vladimir Gusinsky. Mr Kondaurov, a former spokesman for the
KGB, worked for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who ran and
largely owned Yukos. “People who stayed in the FSB
were B-list,” says Mark Galeotti, a British analyst
of the Russian special services.
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The bit about being stitched up
Jews rings true. The rest is tosh.
Vladimir Putin -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; born 7 October 1952) served
as the
second
President of the
Russian
Federation and is the current
Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of
United Russia and
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the
Union of Russia and Belarus. He became
acting President on 31 December 1999, when president
Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move. Putin won the
2000 presidential election and in 2004 he was
re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
Due to constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term. After the victory of his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, in the 2008 presidential elections, he was nominated by the latter to be Russia's Prime Minister; Putin took the post on 8 May 2008.
Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing the rule of law. During his eight years in office, due to strong macroeconomic management, important fiscal policy reforms, and a confluence of high oil prices, surging capital inflows, and access to low-cost external financing, Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase by 72% in PPP (sixfold in nominal), poverty cut more than half, and average monthly salaries increase from $80 to $640, or by 150% in real rates.[4][9] Analysts have described Putin's economic reforms as impressive.
During his presidency, Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. At the same time, his conduct in office has been questioned by domestic political opposition, foreign governments, and human rights organizations for leading the Second Chechen War, for his record on internal human rights and freedoms, and for his alleged bullying of the former Soviet Republics.
A new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy—such as Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Prokhorov, or Yuriy Kovalchuk, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin—emerged according to media reports. Along with Putin's connections to the business world, he has been criticized since the beginning of his first term as developing a cult of personality...........
According to public opinion surveys
conducted by
Levada Center, Putin's approval rating was 81% in June 2007, and the
highest of any leader in the world.
His popularity rose from 31% in August 1999 to 80% in November 1999 and since
then it has never fallen below 65%.
Observers see Putin's high approval ratings as a consequence of the
significant improvements in living standards and Russia's reassertion of
itself on the world scene that occurred during his tenure as President.
Most Russians are also deeply disillusioned with the West after all the
hardships of 90s,
and they no longer trust pro-western politicians associated with Yeltsin that
were removed from the political scene under Putin's leadership.
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The Wiki is surprisingly kind about Vlad, not that he does not deserve it. But
the main stream media have been knocking him. The Wiki does not bother
to mention that
Berezovsky, one of his critics is a Jew on
the run wanted for murder and big time thieving.
Her Majesty's Government allowed
Berezovsky to get away with inciting war as well as refusing to extradite him.