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.” ;>
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.” ;>
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/
Very, very interesting. Thanks, pthread.