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Putin is Russian president again
« on: March 05, 2012, 03:52:32 PM »
Vladimir Putin wins in Russia: the politics of fear

By Telegraph View
05 Mar 2012

The Russian presidential campaign has hardly been short on drama: blood-curdling speeches, outbreaks of protest, the reported thwarting of an assassination plot.  In the end, however, the result will be the same as could have been predicted months – or even years – ago.  Vladimir Putin will return to the office he left in 2008, with the current president, Dmitri Medvedev, going back to his old job as prime minister.  The only element of mystery is whether Mr Putin’s apparent success in meeting the 50 per cent threshold for outright victory in the first round involved the kind of widespread vote-rigging that disfigured Russia’s parliamentary elections in December.

On the face of it, then, this election means business as usual: Putin and his sidekick back in charge for another six years, and possibly 12.  Yet in fact, it represents something of a watershed for Russia.  In the wake of those rigged elections, dissent is growing.  Mr Putin has cast himself as the scourge of corruption, the man who tamed the gangsters.  Yet Russians are growing tired of a political system that entrenches the privileges of an oligarchy of businessmen, bureaucrats and security men, and of an economy that depends on the fluctuating price of oil and gas rather than the skills and ideas of its workforce.

Mr Putin is still a popular figure, thanks largely to the cult of personality that surrounds him.  Yet many of those voting for him yesterday were making a negative choice, rather than a positive one: they support him out of fear of a return to the chaos of the post-Soviet era, and in the absence (thanks to the Kremlin’s own strenuous efforts) of any credible alternative.  With opponents of the regime growing increasingly vocal, we suspect he will find his next term in office a great deal more testing than the last.

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Re: Putin is Russian president again
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2012, 03:58:22 PM »
...than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

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Re: Putin is Russian president again
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2012, 04:03:21 PM »
Vlad lives again...

...and dobby is set to play him soon, according to reports. ;D





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Re: Putin is Russian president again
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2012, 11:58:00 AM »
Putin some vodka in Russia...  :D




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