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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    RT says Vlad is goody two shoes.

    Now there's a fucking shocker.
    Wow It's useless to even bring points up which is true to your attention as I can see you are so narrow minded or bought by some elite news media or Soros (no I take that back you not that valuable) You act like you are def or blind to all the facts which are known to the whole world except you? It's great to live in dark and for sure in your beliefs and never have to adventure out to the true world. You deserve no freedom because you do not need one. Ignorance is a bliss for sure. Why are you here at all? What would be the reason for you to be involved with this debate? Other than being a troll. You have no knowledge of anything just saying the same thing all over and over and over again you are just here without any facts to back it up!

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    Quote Originally Posted by global View Post
    Wow It's useless to even bring points up which is true to your attention as I can see you are so narrow minded or bought by some elite news media or Soros (no I take that back you not that valuable) You act like you are def or blind to all the facts which are known to the whole world except you? It's great to live in dark and for sure in your beliefs and never have to adventure out to the true world. You deserve no freedom because you do not need one. Ignorance is a bliss for sure. Why are you here at all? What would be the reason for you to be involved with this debate? Other than being a troll. You have no knowledge of anything just saying the same thing all over and over and over again you are just here without any facts to back it up!

    Oooo another one who likes jerking off over vlad's topless pics.



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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Oooo another one who likes jerking off over vlad's topless pics.



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    How wholehearted from Harry to mourn a death of crook after some 10 years....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    How wholehearted from Harry to mourn a death of crook after some 10 years....
    Has your village noticed its idiot is missing?

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    Perhaps the righteous Harry is not aware of the fact that the many investigations brought no evidence for his (and others) insinuation (but who cares?)

    Similarly, also the death of dr. David Kelly - who wanted avert the Iraq war - was never clarified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_...eapons_expert)

    But also not so hugely publicized again and again despite his importance uncomparable with a death of a traitor and deserter
    (What others say about traitors: Trump: 'We're tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who's a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed,' Trump said to cheers at a rally in a Vegas theater
    Read more: Donald Trump says Bowe Bergdahl should have been EXECUTED for desertion | Daily Mail Online

    I have compiled few facts (out of many) that to somebody seem be off topis (as usually is the excuse for a deletion), however, they show what enormous crooks are some people connected to the Litvinenko's death. And all those are well connected and well protected by establishment (and admired by some - please no name... )


    After Litvinenko's death, traces of polonium-210 were found in an office of Berezovsky.[124] Litvinenko had visited Berezovsky's office as well as many other places in the hours after his poisoning.[125] The British Health Protection Agency made extensive efforts to ensure that locations Litvinenko visited and anyone who had contact with Litvinenko after his poisoning, were not at risk.[126]

    Russian prosecutors were not allowed to investigate the office.[127] Russian authorities have also been unable to question Berezovsky. The Foreign Ministry complained that Britain was obstructing its attempt to send prosecutors to London to interview more than 100 people, including Berezovsky.[128]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko



    An alternative theory – that the murder was orchestrated by Berezovsky with the aim of "framing" the Russian government and discrediting it on the global stage – has been aired in the Russian state-funded media,[200] by Lugovoy,[201] by Litvinenko's Italy-based father[202] and by Russian officials. Russian State-funded media continue to report the claims e.g. "'Berezovsky killed my son', Litvinenko's dad tells Scotland Yard"[202] as of May 2012.
    Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013)[8][9] was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Berezovsky was politically opposed to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin since Putin's election in 2000 and remained a vocal critic of Putin for the rest of his life.[10] In late 2000, after the Russian Deputy Prosecutor General demanded that Berezovsky appear for questioning, he did not return from abroad and moved to the UK, which granted him political asylum in 2003.[11] In Russia he was later convicted in absentia of fraud and embezzlement. The first charges were brought during Primakov's government in 1999.[12] Despite an Interpol Red Notice for Berezovsky's arrest, Russia repeatedly failed to obtain the extradition of Berezovsky from Britain, which became a major point of diplomatic tension between the two countries.[13][14][15]

    Berezovsky made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s when the country went through privatization of state property.[16] He profited from gaining control over various assets, including the country's main television channel, Channel One. In 1997 Forbes magazine estimated Berezovsky's wealth at US$3 billion.[17] He was at the height of his power in the later Yeltsin years, when he was deputy secretary of Russia's security council, a friend of Boris Yeltsin's influential daughter Tatyana, and a member of the Yeltsin "family" (inner circle).

    Persona non grata in Latvia since October 2005
    Berezovsky conducted business with Neil Bush, the younger brother of the US President George W. Bush. Berezovsky was an investor in Bush's Ignite! Learning, an educational software corporation, since at least 2003. In 2005, Neil Bush met with Berezovsky in Latvia, causing tension with Russia


    Death of Badri Patarkatsishvili in February 2008
    In the evening of Tuesday, 12 February 2008, Georgia's richest man, billionaire Arkady "Badri" Patarkatsishvili, a close friend and long-time business partner of Boris Berezovsky, collapsed and died in his bedroom after a family dinner at Downside Manor, his mansion in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, at the age of 52.[204]

    Patarkatsishvili, who as a presidential candidate had also been campaigning to oust Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili, spent his last day in the City of London office of international law firm Debevoise and Plimpton, preparing his defence against allegations from the Georgian government that he had plotted a coup against Saakashvili. These allegations included plans to murder a government official and commit terrorist acts. At 4pm, the group was joined by Patarkatsishvili's public relations adviser Lord Tim Bell and by his close friend Boris Berezovsky.


    High Court case against Abramovich
    In 2011 Berezovsky brought a civil case against Roman Abramovich in the High Court of Justice in London, accusing Abramovich of blackmail, breach of trust and breach of contract, and seeking over £3 billion in damages.[23] This became the largest civil court case in British legal history.[158]

    On 23 March 2013, Berezovsky was found dead at his home, Titness Park, at Sunninghill, near Ascot in Berkshire.[28] His body was found by a bodyguard in a locked bathroom, with a ligature around his neck.[211][212][213] His death was announced in a post on Facebook by his son-in-law. Alexander Dobrovinsky, a lawyer who had represented Berezovsky, wrote that he may have committed suicide,[214] adding that Berezovsky had fallen into debt after losing a protracted lawsuit against Roman Abramovich,

    Following the inquest the coroner, Mr Peter Bedford, recorded an open verdict commenting, "I am not saying Mr Berezovsky took his own life, I am not saying Mr Berezovsky was unlawfully killed. What I am saying is that the burden of proof sets such a high standard it is impossible for me to say."

    Apology to Putin
    After Berezovsky's death, a spokesman for President Putin reported that he had sent a letter to the Russian president, asking for permission to return to Russia and asking "forgiveness for his mistakes."[223][224] Some of Berezovsky's associates doubted the letter's existence, claiming that it was out of character. However, his girlfriend at the time, Katerina Sabirova, later confirmed in an interview that he did in fact send the letter:[225]

    "I said that they will publish it and you will look bad. And that it won’t help. He answered that it was all the same to him, that in any case all sins were blamed on him and that this was his only chance."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_..._(businessman)

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    Steinmeier: Berlin and Moscow must renew trust

    German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on Germany and Russia to "rebuild a minimum of trust." He's the first German head of state to visit Russia in seven years.

    President Steinmeier met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday for talks over Russo-German economic ties and the Ukraine and Syria conflicts.

    "It's essential that we […] continue our dialog to try to improve our bilateral relations, the state of which we can't be happy about," Steinmeier told Putin at the start of talks.

    Steinmeier, previously foreign minister, has long called for increased engagement with Moscow. Steinmeier's Social Democrats, which are expected to enter into the opposition after four years in a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU, want a gradual easing of EU sanctions on Moscow over its role in Ukraine.

    "I come during times in which German-Russian relations have become difficult," Steinmeier said. "I see it as my responsibility to contribute to making sure that this doesn't last forever."

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    ^The next few paragraph were interesting also. Hope to see these problems worked out.

    Relations have been strained since Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsulaand subsequent support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.


    Putin said after the meeting that they, too, had agreed on the need to implement a 2015 peace deal for eastern Ukraine, adding that he and Steinmeier had discussed possible deployment of a UN peacekeeping contingent in the east.


    He added that the talks also focused on Syria, the Iranian nuclear deal and the situation in North Korea.


    Steinmeier also launched a disarmament initiative he hopes will push Russia and the US to start talks about reducing conventional arsenals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Putin said after the meeting that they, too, had agreed on the need to implement a 2015 peace deal for eastern Ukraine, adding that he and Steinmeier had discussed possible deployment of a UN peacekeeping contingent in the east.
    This has been already quite a long on the table, however, not everybody happy (who about?)

    Russia drafts UN Security Council resolution to send peacekeepers to Ukraine
    Published time: 5 Sep, 2017

    Russia has introduced a draft resolution to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the establishment of a UN mission that would provide security for Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitors working in eastern Ukraine, the Russian UN envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, told journalists.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Foreign Ministry to submit the draft after voicing the idea at a press conference following the three-day BRICS summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen.

    “I consider the presence of peacekeepers, or rather people who would provide security for the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] mission, absolutely appropriate, and see nothing wrong with it,” the Russian leader said.

    He went on to say that he believes that sending peacekeepers to the eastern part of Ukraine would “do good” for the conflict resolution, adding that he ordered the Russian Foreign Ministry to “submit a relevant resolution to the UN Security Council.”

    At the same time, the president stressed that the potential UN mission should focus “solely on providing security for the OSCE officials,” and should operate only on the contact line between Kiev’s forces and the Donbas rebels.

    Ukraine, however, was reluctant to support the Russian president’s initiative. Vladimir Aryev, a Ukrainian MP and the head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that the Ukrainian leadership generally supports the idea of sending peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine but rejects the format proposed by Russia.

    “Putin’s statement concerning the necessity of coordinating the issue of UN peacekeepers’ deployment to Donbas with the [self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk] would de facto mean legalization of their network” in eastern Ukraine, he said, as cited by the press service of the Ukrainian president’s political party - the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Solidarity.

    He said that Ukraine would “never agree to such a format,” adding that the UN mission should not include Russian military as it would be “legalization” of their alleged presence on Ukrainian territory.

    https://www.rt.com/news/402094-russi...epers-ukraine/

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    Putin to Meet Iran’s Top Leaders in Tehran on Wednesday
    1 November 2017

    Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tehran Wednesday for meetings with Iran’s top leaders as Moscow voices increasing criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump’s move away from the nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic.

    Putin will hold talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that will focus on the nuclear issue and their cooperation in Syria, as well as economic ties, the Kremlin said in an emailed statement. He’ll also take part in a three-way summit between Russia, Iran and neighboring Azerbaijan.

    “Iran wants Russia’s position to be more clear and supportive” over the nuclear pact, which is endangered by the U.S. stance, said Alexei Malashenko, a senior analyst at the Berlin-based Dialogue of Civilizations research group. They’re also likely to discuss Russia and Iran’s postwar balance of responsibilities in Syria, he said.

    Trump last month disavowed the 2015 accord to curb Iran’s nuclear program that was negotiated between Tehran and the U.S., Russia, France, Germany, the U.K. and China. He accused Iran of violating the agreement multiple times, though he stopped short of abandoning the pact completely. All of the other participants, as well as inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, say Iran is complying with the deal.

    Russia has rejected Trump’s demand to renegotiate the deal. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “unpredictable” U.S. behavior was an issue of grave concern, citing the refusal to uphold the Iranian agreement and threats to use force to resolve the crisis on the Korean peninsula.

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    ^By all accounts a jolly time was had by all. Agreements signed, friendships cemented, future polices agreed.

    Compare with ameristan government officials. In Singapore the ameristanis demanded ASEAN leaders should turn their backs against China.

    The ASEAN leaders reaction was deciding to have joint military exercises with China. The Vietnamese have announced joint exercises with China. A snub or what?
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    ^By all accounts a jolly time was had by all. Agreements signed, friendships cemented, future polices agreed.

    Compare with ameristan government officials. In Singapore the ameristanis demanded ASEAN leaders should turn their backs against China.

    The ASEAN leaders reaction was deciding to have joint military exercises with China. The Vietnamese have announced joint exercises with China. A snub or what?
    Payback for cancelling TPP.

    Stupid orange cunto.

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    Who prevented the Putin/Trump meeting in Vietnam?

    At the 2017 APEC Summit, held between 10 – 11 November in Vietnam, a bilateral meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump was supposed to take place. Russia’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, stated that “while both sides were trying to organise the meeting, the United States offered a time and place that only suited them.”

    "The only time proposed was that which suited the Americans, and they offered only one place - a room that was rented by the Americans," he said. Peskov reiterated that the last meeting of the Presidents, at the G20 in Hamburg, was held on American diplomatic territory, and, by diplomatic protocol, this time the meeting was supposed to take place on Russian diplomatic territory.

    "The Americans showed no flexibility, and unfortunately no other alternative offers were provided, so the meeting could not take place," Putin's press secretary added.


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    One suspects there was nothing offered that took the LORD's fancy or the ameristanis wanted to wing it. Let's face facts, the orange one's attention to detail is somewhat limited.

    As the lord stated, someone will be punished. Lavrovs head must be sliced off for allowing such a thing to disturb the LORD's peaceful meditation.

    The differences between the LORD's, along with Uncle Xi's, emphasis when speaking. Always refering to Russian, Chinese and their citizens needs and achievements. Compared to the golden boy's "me, my, my wife and I" pleasures and efforts. Illustrates who and what are important. IMHO.

    The video shows the golden boy in the back row, although next to the Thai rep. It must be a Russian edited one.
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    Perhaps Vlad is embarrassed by all the fawning.

    He needs to tell his blackmail team to dial it back a little.

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    The LORD embarrased, for what?

    Kings, Princes and Presidents choose to honour him by showing, to their peers and the world, they are gratefull for his accomplishments and his acknowlegment of their prescence.

    Only Uncle Xi stands head and shoulders above. Not that that is too difficult
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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    The LORD embarrased, for what?

    Kings, Princes and Presidents choose to honour him by showing, to their peers and the world, they are gratefull for his accomplishments and his acknowlegment of their prescence.

    Only Uncle Xi stands head and shoulders above. Not that that is too difficult
    *embarrassed

    *grateful

    *presence

    I've always believed you have to be a bit thick to post all this shite.


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    This is an excellent and surprising read from The Independent.


    'There can be no second Putin': Russia looks to prospect of future without Vladimir as sources say he has considered quitting


    For a long time, it has seemed that the only person unsure he will run in the presidential elections next March is Vladimir Putin.


    The people expect it, his opponents are sure of it, his entourage is convinced of it. But Russia’s President is delaying.


    When Mr Putin chooses to run, he will win, and handsomely. The President remains popular with his base and possesses a well-oiled political machine that, as dependable as the rotation of the sun and the movements of the tide, will deliver a result between 60 per cent and 70 per cent in his favour.


    But behind the scenes things are less predictable. From interviews with academics, government and near-government players, some anonymous, The Independent can reveal a picture of intense uncertainty at the heart of power.


    It is a picture that shows the President’s grip on the Kremlin to be as strong as ever – but only because it needs to be.


    Vladimir Putin is, sources say, tired. And he is reluctant to engage in a major national election – again. The campaign will be reduced to a bare minimum; there will be no repeat of the exhausting test of the 2011-2012 elections, when Mr Putin declared his candidacy six months early.


    His decision to swap jobs with Dmitry Medvedev provoked an unexpected wave of protest. By the time of election day, the result was not in question. But Mr Putin invested a lot in winning – emotionally and psychologically.


    The absolute deadline for registration depends on whether Mr Putin runs as an independent or on a party platform. But most expect a declaration no earlier than mid-December.


    A short campaign brings with it other benefits. It will offer a sense of drama to what otherwise promises to be a sterile contest. Likewise, opponents will also have the shortest time possible in which to challenge him.


    The opposition, unable even to agree on a unity candidate, is of course unlikely to make a breakthrough. The controversial candidacy of TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has split the anti-Kremlin vote. Whether she will be allowed to participate is still, sources say, under discussion. The technocratic head of Putin’s administration, Sergei Kiriyenko believes her presence would add sparkle; others are less convinced.


    Authorities will also almost certainly bar leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from registering his candidacy. Russia’s Election Commission says that an embezzlement conviction makes him ineligible – it’s a conviction that has been ruled provisionally unfair by the European Court of Human Rights.


    Mr Navalny has surprised the Kremlin with his persistence this year. From declaring presidential ambitions in December, he has consistently outflanked the government. His YouTube expose of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s alleged corruption – which Mr Medvedev denies – was watched by tens of millions. His call to the streets in March saw the largest protests Russia has seen since 2012. Mr Navalny has captured the language of a new, young protest demographic; the Kremlin, to some extent, is still playing catch-up.


    Mr Putin’s people believe the battle for Mr Navalny’s youth will be won not on the streets, but on screens. There will be no repeat of Nashi-style pro-Kremlin mass youth movements of the past. Instead, insiders report a beefed-up internet department inside the presidential administration. There are expanded news-making desks thinking up sexy digital narratives – like Mr Putin’s demonstrative visit to Russia’s search engine giant Yandex. Other desks concentrate on using bots, trolls and other creatures of the Russian digital space to form a “new, positive youth agenda”.


    The aim is clear and unambiguous: Mr Putin offers opportunity; he continues to be the future.


    Squaring the digital narrative with the analogue reality of an ageing leader is where things get difficult. The recession may be over, but most Russians have experienced four years of declining real terms income. There has been a fundamental shift in public mood that, according to polls, favours change over stability.


    The Kremlin has not been able to agree on a serious programme of reform in response, says Valery Solovei, a professor of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. Indeed, the election offer has already been scaled back. Rather than projecting a confident future, the promise is now on improving productivity and efficiency.


    “There is a growing sense that this election is less about the future, as it is about the end,” said Mr Solovei.


    Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin advisor and head of the Effective Politics Foundation, told The Independent that the regime was entering a “terminal” phase. “Whichever way you play it, this campaign is about transitioning to a post-Putin Russia,” he said.


    Already, a battle is under way over who will head government following the March elections. This, according to the constitution at least, is the second most important position in Russian politics.


    In October, Bloomberg suggested the current Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, would become a necessary sacrifice. Bloodied by Mr Navalny’s assault, the Prime Minister was considered a spent political force. Names such as the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina and industry minister Denis Manturov were mentioned as possible replacements.


    But, say sources, the Prime Minister has “recuperated psychologically” since then and may well stay in position. The dismissal of Medvedev would need to be seen as a strong move, says political commentator Konstantin Gaaze. At the moment, “it would not resolve much”.


    One high-level source told The Independent that Putin was likely to stay with what he knew best. The President was a “conservative man” when it came to appointments, and would try not to change things if he doesn’t have to. Besides, if something looks obvious from the outside, it won’t happen: “Mr Putin likes the unexpected; and when he makes changes, he will confer with no one.”


    The sense of a man out on his own, trusting no one, was repeated several times in interviews. Mr Putin has not made his intentions clear even to his closest colleagues, said Mr Pavlovsky: “He’s a tragic character, someone who is forced to organise his own special operation.”
    Mr Putin’s inner circle – “not so much a cabinet, but a Tsarist court” – is notoriously protective of their man. It does not want to let him go.


    “They need Putin much more than he needs them,” says Mr Pavlovsky. “The first day they are left without him, the questions will begin. Where’s the money come from? And who are they exactly?”


    Guarantees about what will happen come March have not been forthcoming from the President, says Mr Gaaze. This has created “enormous tensions” at the heart of government, he says: “Even if Putin manages to delay announcing until December, you will see the beginning of a huge turf war, with compromising material being flung between various parts of the government; it’s already beginning, in fact.”


    Three separate sources told The Independent that Mr Putin apparently considered leaving the presidency in autumn last year. He instructed his administration to draw up possible scenarios for his exit.


    One of the ideas was a snap presidential election in December. Other possibilities included constitutional reform – from instituting a new vice-presidential position to transferring executive power to a more collegiate body, akin to the Soviet Politburo. The plan was to steal a march on the expected hardline Russia policy that a Clinton presidency would have brought with it.


    Donald Trump’s unexpected victory changed the calculus somewhat. But more fundamentally, there was no obvious person to hand the baton to. One figure touted at the time was Alexei Dyumin, a career officer and currently governor of Tula Oblast. His main credentials for the job, one source said, were that “Putin trusts him”.


    Others suggested Mr Dyumin was being used to sow unrest among the Tsar’s “out-of-control” boyars. “Dyumin isn’t from the inner circle, so his very appearance is frightening to them,” said Mr Pavlovsky.


    The competing groups are unlikely to agree on a successor. Vladimir Putin has carved out a unique role over nearly two decades, and sits at the top of a balanced, highly personalised system. His exit, when it comes, will be profound.


    “There can be no second Putin. When the man goes, the system goes,” says Mr Solovei. “All the informal communications, the glue that holds things together, that will go too.”


    The appointment of inexperienced technocrats to governor positions nationwide could exacerbate the pressures, he says: “There’s no money, so there may come a point where you can’t resolve local problems, then the strikes start, then Moscow gets involved. Protest, mass actions – you can’t predict any of this.”


    A majority of the interviewees suggested that Russia was on the verge of a major political crisis – the system has “exhausted itself”, and was “teetering at the edge of an era”.


    “The last time I felt like this was at the end of the Soviet Union,” says Mr Solovei. “And, worryingly, people who were around at the time are telling me they feel exactly the same.”

    'There can be no second Putin': Russia looks to prospect of future without Vladimir as sources say he has considered quitting | The Independent
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    It wouldn't surprise me at all if he decides to cut and run before people realise how much he has stashed away.

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    It is a heavy cross to carry but is there a Russian who can replace him. The article doesn't identify one.

    Only time will tell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    It is a heavy cross to carry but is there a Russian who can replace him. The article doesn't identify one.

    Only time will tell.
    He'd better hope there isn't, because they'll probably want the money back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    It wouldn't surprise me at all if he decides to cut and run before people realise how much he has stashed away.
    You are just still the same fool and you will never change. Don't you see this will change the demographic of world politics not for the better but for the worst? You claiming you know how much Putin stashed away ...prove it? Clintons steal 100’s of millions front of the American people eyes if not more why not open your mouth about that? He has served his country well more then I can say about the Bushes (all the fails wars) and Obama (droning families and people) America (not the people of America) done more damage to the world than ten Putin could have. Don’t you get it?




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    Quote Originally Posted by global View Post
    You are just still the same fool and you will never change. Don't you see this will change the demographic of world politics not for the better but for the worst? You claiming you know how much Putin stashed away ...prove it? Clintons steal 100’s of millions front of the American people eyes if not more why not open your mouth about that? He has served his country well more then I can say about the Bushes (all the fails wars) and Obama (droning families and people) America (not the people of America) done more damage to the world than ten Putin could have. Don’t you get it?
    Suck it up Buttercup.

    He's a thief and a murderer, and he will get what's coming to him eventually.

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    Syria peace talks: Putin discusses political solution with Erdogan & Rouhani amid ISIS demise
    Published time: 22 Nov, 2017

    Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting in Sochi with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hassan Rouhani of Iran to share their views on Syrian reconciliation. The three countries previously agreed to be guarantors of the Syrian peace process.
    Welcoming his dignitary guests, Putin said the meeting comes at a crucial moment in the Syrian armed conflict, when there is an opportunity to end it.

    “The militants in Syria have sustained a decisive blow, and now there is a realistic chance to end the multiyear civil war,” he said. This would require giving the Syrians a period of peace, during which they would be able to settle their differences, Putin added. This will require compromise by all parties in Syria, both the government and the rebels, he stressed.

    Rouhani said that the crisis in Syria has been exacerbated from the start and seriously prolonged by the foreign meddling, including “supplying and arming and other forms of support of militant groups. These consequently formed the core of the terrorist groups Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front.”

    Erdogan said the three nations had already helped in resolving the situation in Syria to a large degree through the so-called ‘Astana process’ – several rounds of negotiations sponsored by Russia, Iran and Turkey and hosted by Kazakhstan. “But we don’t consider this result sufficient and believe that all stakeholders must put effort into a political resolution of the conflict, which the Syrian people would accept,” he added.

    The summit comes just days after a surprise meeting between Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad, who unexpectedly visited Sochi on Monday. Assad, whose forces have been fighting terrorists in Syria since 2011, said that it was due to Russian support that Syria still existed as a state.

    Previously, Putin also held telephone conversations with US President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow and Washington had reached “a fairly sustainable cooperation” on Syria, though there were “huge problems in condemning terrorists and extremists.”

    https://www.rt.com/news/410582-putin...i-syria-talks/

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    If this man will shake his hand maybe Putin isn't so bad after all...


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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin View Post
    If this man will shake his hand maybe Putin isn't so bad after all...

    Don't see why, Solzhenitsyn was a rabid anti-communist and a nationalistic prick.

    Like two peas out of the same pod, except Vlad is the better thief.

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