How do Russians truly feel about their great leader?

Merkel's crisis management was better than in any other mayor Western country and she is someone whom I trust can understand complicated matters and follow experts' explanations. Neither of her two possible successors give me that confidence.

Do you think someone like Baerbock, who doesn't understand how energy storage works and believes that Social market economy was invented by the SPD would have been able to eloquently explain the R-Factor like Merkel did?

Laschet is competent, but seems like a pale imitation of Merkel. He wouldn't be as damaging as Baerbock to our country and thus has my vote by default, but I'd certainly prefer the original.

Russian people approves him. More than enough to be re-elected again and again. Because he work, not just talking about some stupid theories.
Pro-Soros "opposition" can sh*t by whole bricks and cry loudly - but have no chances.

I know.....😩

Probably because they don't know any better. I bet that if Russian people experienced higher quality of life under democratic leadership (not only in Moscow and larger cities, but in the entire country) they wouldn't want to go back to living in a totalitarian regime.

Just strange that Putin nevertheless feels the need to opress and murder anyone who seems like he could even remotely challenge him.

If the Russians truly love him so much, he would not see the need for such drastic measures.

We had "democratic leadership" in 1990's and was praised by the West. In fact, it was looting of resources and destroying industrial potential (the same thing that now nearly finished in Ukraine). So, we feel that Putin is optimal compromise between democracy and authoritarism for time being. We are very cautious now about anything that may cause praises from the West.

We are very fond of being lectured about the "theory of democracy" and the regular alternation of power is presented as a dogma, an absolute requirement.

What they forget to tell us is that it is only a tool. A tool to replace honest politicians, who are sold once in a lifetime. If it lingers in power for too long, it is a disaster for those who were too slow or too greedy and did not buy in time and need another chance. ;)

It's very rare to come across larger figures who don't sell out. Rockefeller, as I recall, lamented that he didn't succeed with Putin when he was not yet at the top. It is bad for the state to displace such people simply by term of office, if they work honestly.

So, print your recommendations on a heavy glossy paper, roll into tube, and stick them yourself to the right place. ;)


Do you have any names? Or just some sh*t to throw to the fan?

You would have to live under a rock to now know what happened to Navalny.


And yet this precisely what is happening under Putin. All those wealthy oloharchs who are enjoying the high life in London, where do you think there money comes from?

Yes, we experienced something similar in Poland (albeit on a smaller scale) after the fall of communism too. In Russia, apparently, the scale of theft was immense -- all those oligarchs worth billions upon billions (in hard currency!). I wonder how powerful Russia would be, with all her resources and know-how, if it was governed like Germany (or at least like Poland). A superpower undoubtedly.


Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? However, there is some truth in it, even if a politician is a thief then it would seem better, in some circumstances, to have one thief who has already stolen enough to last him a lifetime than choose a new set of thieves, who want to make a fortune for themselves, every four years. :) That's why liberal democracy doesn't work in some countries.


Ha ha - good one. :) If the current Putin's regime is what Russian people genuinely want, then I suppose it's their democratic right (however, Tacitus raised a valid objection in post #65).

Boris Nemtsov rings a bell? Alexander V. Litvinenko? Anna Politkovskaya?

List of journalists killed in Russia

....The dangers to journalists in Russia have been well known since the early 1990s but concern over the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. While international monitors mentioned a dozen deaths, some sources within Russia talked of over two hundred fatalities.[1] ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#Under_Putin_(since_2012)

According to the updated list, there are currently 362 political prisoners in Russia, of whom 297 were persecuted for their religious views and 65 for their political activities.

svoboda.org/a/30921246.html

csce.gov/international-impact/political-prisoners-russia?page=1

Nobody (maybe except MI-6) know what really happened to Navalny. But culprits was "appointed" immediately.

I'm glad that Navavlny now in a safe place out of reach of their curators, where nothing wrong will happen with them anymore. ;) Would also be glad to see Maria Pevchikh into similar quiet and safe place, but...

I truly expect soon to read his obituary in the news....totally of his own fault of course!

Do you have some information about "undisclosed" procedures, that was undergo in Berlin clinic? Oncogenous virus planting? Maybe injection of prions similar to "cow madness" ones?

The virus of "democracy" ! :)

The same which wanted freedom so much that it fled from a chinese laboratory...

Okay....better leave now....Good Night all! :)

More like trumpeting a fanfare. When activists demanded that the Krasnokholmsky Bridge be renamed Nemtsov Bridge, there were a lot of suggestions in the comments to the news about the urgent census of bridges and garden bridges in Moscow for the immediate renaming in memory of another representative of the non-systemic opposition, who leaves the mortal world in a non-standard way.

I have my doubts about the official version of his murder, it was more likely the revenge of a "ditched" customer of his near-political services. He was quite successful in selling his connections, and when the amount of money that his mistresses and bastards were fighting over came out, many people were a bit shocked.


Was Coroner Inquest finally published? Or Litvinenko case still covered under secrecy? I'm tired to monitor this, of course.

Similar to one that was provided to Magnitsky together with drugs, sent to him in prison?

Hey are you all Russians? I don't know how Russian truly feel about Putin...
I think that a large part of the population like him .....not that it matters that much in Russia anyway, as long as he keeps his clique in check he will do all right.

Maybe they like him because he keeps his clique in check, not the other way.
Did you notice that Facebook never banned Xi or Putin? I guess both meet the Facebook community standards.