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Why Putin Doesn't Need To Pander To The West
Submitted by Colin Chilcoat via OilPrice.com,
It’s quiet on the eastern front – as quiet as a conflict between world superpowers can be. Since February’s cease-fire agreement, relative calm has prevailed in Ukraine and world events elsewhere – Iran and Yemen – have shifted the global focus. Still, the West’s frigid relationship with Russia is no less chilly and antagonism, not cooperation, remains the modus operandi. Long-term, the stalemate looks to continue, but can either side afford such a result? And if not, who cracks first?
The prevailing judgment is that Russia cannot. And at surface level it’s a fair assessment. The Bank of Russia predicts the economy will contract by between 3.5 and 4 percent in 2015 and by another 1 percent in 2016; the ruble, while stable, is still down approximately 40 percent since June of last year. In all, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin believes the events in Crimea will cost the Russian economy as much as $200 billion over the next three to four years. The political and economic situation is fraught with grey area however, and no one turns grey to green quite like president Vladimir Putin.
As Putin embarks on his 16th year at the helm – I’m counting 2008-2012 – he faces a situation not too dissimilar from his first year in office: a sluggish economy, falling standard of living, high capital flight, and low foreign direct investment. Russia’s demographics look good and its equity market is a top pick for 2015, but in the short-term, the country’s macro indicators don’t yield much hope.
Now, as in 2000, Putin will ride oil through to the finish. In that regard, the World Bank forecasts favorable price growth to the quarter-century mark. By 2018, Russia’s Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev expects the economy to out-perform high-income economies globally. The longevity of such a strategy is questionable; it’s risky – and probably the only realistic course of action – but Putin doesn’t have to wait out the rough patch, only his competitors.
In Europe, the cracks are beginning to show.
On March 16, the United States effectively removed any easing of sanctions from the table – the State Department will continue to support and enforce sanctions as long as Russia continues to occupy Crimea. Germany, in song with the US, remains committed to the cause and German Chancellor Angel Merkel reiterated the nations’ shared ideology in statements to the European Council on March 19. That same day, European Union leaders collectively agreed to back sanctions until the Minsk accord bears fruit. Individually, the agendas differ significantly.
EU officials believe that up to half of the member nations are ready to scale back sanctions. Among the most vocal in their discontent are Austria, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy, Greece, Slovakia, and Spain.
Greece in particular is inching closer to Russia. The nation is on the brink of default and has yet to agree on bailout terms with EU officials. Newly elected Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet with Putin in Moscow on April 8 – a meeting that many believe is to establish a back-up plan to EU financing. Tsipras’ trip follows that of his Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who returned to Greece March 31 after securing Russian commitments to participate in an upcoming tender for deep-sea oil and gas exploration in the Ionian Sea.
In Hungary, Putin and Hungarian President Viktor Orban have finalized a $10.8 billion loan agreement that will see Russia finance the expansion of Hungary’s Paks nuclear plant. Whether it’s providing genuine aid or not, Russia’s message to the EU is clear – it won’t be stopped.
The growing piecemeal arrangements make obvious the sanctions’ limits – there’s not much further they can go – and demonstrate that nobody wants to be the last one to the table when the sanctions do indeed drop.
Russia possesses tremendous opportunity for growth and with no lack of suitors – east or west – Putin is in no hurry to pander to the US or EU hardliners.
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I understand that Bismarck considered Russia to be Germany's natural ally.
If I were Pootie, I'd be very very worried about that Weaselbloom character.
Maybe even get Chuck Norris to protect him.
Protect the Weasel, not Vlad. When Vlad does a pushup, the Earth recedes
If you were Putin, you wouldn't waste your time posting inanities. But I know that you are no Putin... LOL
Here's an alternative view from Handelsblatt: http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/partnersuche-auf-russi...
I'd tend to be more on Handelsblatt's side, Russia is backed into a corner without any leverage and I seriously doubt if those supposedly fantastic energy deals with China are so great at all.
Other than the energy sector, Russia has almost no other industries to fall back on and everything they produce (electronics, cars, airplanes) is of such inferior quality that nobody else buys it.
They should have modernized and diversified much more, like China, and perhaps initially cater more to the West in order to build up leverage. Instead they stuck to the only 3 things they know; pump oil/gas, oppress the people with a massive surveilance state, and make shady deals with oligarchs and mafia kingpins.
I'm sorry, but this Handelsblatt article is simply misleading.
For example:
"Other than the energy sector".... as if this isn't one of the most important industries in the entire world. Without energy, everything else is scrap. Why is America constantly invading countries with energy resources?
The article also neglects the robust military sales by Russia, and minor matters such as trillions in mineral resources.
Your last statement, "oppress the people with a massive surveilance state, and make shady deals with oligarchs and mafia kingpins" easily applies to the US and to most of the world.
You know nothing about Russia.
Not just Bismarck. It is the great fear of the US - The Mackinder Plan - Germany with Russia's resources as before 1914 when Siemens was dominant in Russia and Baku oilfields were the major play. Germany needs Russia and France needs Russia or their middle classes will sink into the proletariat. China plus Russia is what will force Europe to succumb because the US TTIP policy will reduce Europe to full colony status and bring revolution which is why the US is deploying weapons to Europe and having its Dragoon Ride across the continent and no doubt waving Art 6 of the NATO Charter to show Greece how coups come about
Another ZH piece promoting Putistan.
It is important to understand that Russia today is a totally different country than Russia before the Zionist-Bolshevik revolution of 1917. (Well, the same is true for the USA before and after FED was created).
Today, Russia became a gas-station for China and EU. Under Putin watch, Russia economy, healthcare, and education system were decimated. A huge number of Russia scientists and highly educated people have left Russia for America, Canada, and EU. The present Russia elite is not Russian anymore and their families and assets are kept outside of Russia. Putin own children live in EU and the Lavrov (Russia Foreign Secretary) family reside in America. It is just a matter of time before this "Russian" elite (mostly Jews) will overthrow Putin. This Zionist elite, being controlled from New York, the City of London, and Tel Aviv, has no desire to live under China control.
Blah, blah, blah, you Ukie propagandists must be really losing the infowar if you are forced to post such garbage. Where is your proof, asshole?
Where is YOUR proof? You can't deny that many educated Russians have left Russia and now work and live abroad. Where are the details of that supposedly fantastic energy deal with China? How much is China really paying for Russian gas and oil? The Chinese are savy business people and I seriously doubt that they are paying top Dollar/RMB for Russian energy now that Putin has effectively castrated Russia's leverage.
This might be worth a read, but you'll probably dismiss it as well as "propaganda:" http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/partnersuche-auf-russi...
They left Russia, and now they are returning to Russia, with know-how and other stuff. Because the conditions in West are worsening. Thanks to the "sane", "inteligent" and "caring" leadership. Period. End of story (and it is not happy end for the West).
About Russia they will be self sufficient soon (oil and gas export was only 18% of GDP in 2013). How will end West without Russian resources and wast market? Well current Somalia or Yemen maybe Ukraine is a good example for the Wests future.
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Oh, look, it's John McCain's parrot.
McCain; Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
Russia: America is an overweight mall cop who can't make his mortgage payments, pretending to be the world's policeman.
I nominate for ZH comment of distinction:
I doubt Nudelman has read his memoirs, she's still sifting through Churchill and Herzl
Zzzzzzzzzzzz(Putin Fluffing)zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
laugh/snort
Haven't heard the word fluffing in years.
So, let's see if can get this right: a bunch of idiotically run countries, bankrupt to the bone (and ALL of them are bankrupt, even your beloved Germany...), ganged up together trying to force (not your Yeltsin's) Russia to "behave".
Yeah, right ! I can see that working out quite nicely... /s
Now that I think about it, maybe the Getty grandson was done in by a Panda. They look all cute and cuddly, but they are packing in the meat department. A good rule of thumb is to not go pandering unless you are experienced.
Death by Panda? I thought it was death by BoogaLooga.
Panda pleasure explains everything. They live in nature, thus "natural causes."
Maybe death by gerbil. Someone said Richard Gere is lucky to be alive.
Bunga Bunga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h80T96Nsbw
The US continues its full spectrum war against Putin and Russia. First there are sanctions. Then there is the attack on oil prices. There are hundreds of CIA, FBI and Blackwater personnel in Ukraine today. And Obama is sending a regiment to train Ukrainian troops and may send weapons soon. The Congress voted to send weapons to Russia with a vote of 348-48. Not a single member of Congress took the floor to oppose this dangerous resolution.
Putin will have to ride out this attack from Obama and the warmongering Neocons. Meanwhile the demonization of Putin by the free and fair press of the West continues unabated:
Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.
The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html
Paul Craig Roberts explains:
Washington’s Path To War With RussiaMarch 28, 2015
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/28/washingtons-path-war-russia/
"The Congress voted to send weapons to Russia with a vote of 348-48."
Prophesy?
The USSA will lose this war, just like they lost in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc etc. But as long as the MIC makes billions, this is all that matters.
"What we are faced with is the most destructive force in history: the short-sightedness of humans. Humans are willing to destroy the environment that sustains them, the law that sustains them, the truth that sustains them. Indeed, humans will destroy everything that sustains life if they can raise their incomes for another quarter or another year."
-PCR.
PCR reveals that US bases in Japan almost launched nukes against Russia and China by mistake at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. The Chinese will be delighted to know that three out of four nuclear missiles that were being launched at one particular site were meant for China:
Out of the four missiles, we had only one headed toward Russia. The other three were not going to Russia
Japanese News Agency Reveals Nuclear War Close Callhttp://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/04/01/japanese-news-agency-reveals-...
"After DEFCON 2 was issued, U.S. forces took a posture to be ready for war within 15 minutes. The crisis ended on Oct. 28, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that he would withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba."
It ain't Oct. 28 [1962]. MAD assumes that the leaders aren't mad.
JustObserving: Meanwhile the demonization of Putin by the free and fair press of the West continues unabated:
I'm hoping that was an attempt at sarcasm, right?
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstituteshttp://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/05/cowardly-despicable-american-...
Of course Nutty Nuukie Puutie is not bothered by sanctions. A failing economy is only a burden on the serfs. The man has visions of expanded empire, rivaling the Tsars. Loosing 30 million dependents in a nuclear exchange makes it easier to control a population that is destitute.
Invade, advance, invade, advance. Justified because there are some expat Russians in a population.
He must be a muzzie convert to have such disregard the lives of the population of the country.
Your analysis is shallow and flawed and unsurprisingly, does not correspond with reality.
With respect, dear friend stooge, calling the Ukie shills analysis shallow and flawed is too kind. He/she/it is delusional.
Ukies do love to wallow in their fantasy.
This appears to have been written by a business person, perhaps with a position to unwind or defend.
The Minsk agreement will be soon abandoned and Ukraibe hostilities will escalate very soon, but for very pragmatic reasons:
1. It is difficult to move heavy equipment around in the mud during the late winter and early spring period when frost is coming out of the ground, They are sitting ducks for artillery and neither side wants to lose what they have, hence the ceasefire.
2. The current boundaries are not natural and sustainable, if Donetsk and Luhansk are to be either independent or semi-autonomous, the political boundaries must be much further west.
3. Ukraine (aka US proxy) needed time, money and equipment to rebuild it’s military, but it seems unlikely that what has been done so far will be sufficient to recapture Donetsk and Luhansk.
4. The puppet master (USA) does not yet have what they want, regime change in Moscow and/or the breakup of Russia into smaller harmless republics.
5. Russia does not yet have what it wants, either regime change in Kiev and/or a secure land and rail corridor to Crimea.
So we can safely predict that the next round will commence within no more than 6 weeks. As the conflict escalates, it will become more and more difficult for the main combatants (US & RU) in the proxy war to conceal the extent of their involvement.
2. When the Uki junta launches their spring offensive, the Separastis gonna take Kharkov to Odessa.
Chocula was warned at Minsk II. There will be no Minsk III
When they are raiding student dorms for manpower it suggests noone wants to fight for the Banderites; and with Poland sealing its border to males from Ukraine it suggests only women can find work outside Ukraine so the only option for men is to flee to Russia.
The place is being prepared to end up like Somalia or Afghanistan with the US playing warlords off against each other. This will turn Europe into a Zone of Instability and collapse economic growth before the Nationalist Resurgence in France starts the Gaullist revival to kick the US out of Europe
History (recent, and very recent) has shown that those who control ("own") the majority of assets of value in the US / EU are extremely reluctant to "share", preferring (by words and actions) to acquire more, in what may be nothing more than a battle of egos (along the lines of "My Pile's bigger than Your Pile").
Those in control have stated many times, very often overtly, their disdain for the "Lesser Classes" - or "Useless Eaters" - "Dr" Kissinger was referring to the elderly, but the mindset amongst the Ruling Elite encompasses all those whose existence is of no "benefit" to the members of the Big Boys (and Girls) Club.
Those in control would quite like a "traditional", high-carnage war, especially one fought "somewhere else" so their homes / boats / toys are at no risk of damage. What a "great way" to encourage the masses to "fight for Freedom" - and conveniently significantly reduce the head-count of swathes of people for whom realistic, rewarding "employment" is no more.
Lots of "Business Opportunities" too, especially once the Government decides to impose Martial Law (which they will - all that ammo was bought for a reason) - "opportunities" for the connected to indulge in real "theft at the point of a gun", with NO threat of any, let alone effective, push-back.
"Opportunity for growth" that's what I'm talking about.
Long Russia. Short NWO.
Silence is GOLDEN. ;-)
Fuck the Eu - to quote the USA. Russia now champions freedom while USA pursues serfdom. What a turnaround. I served in the armed forces against the USSR but now would serve with Russia. Such is the betrayal of western govts of the principles of freedom.
vlad has always known he (russia) was the present day worlds's sword of damocles.
When considering Russia's future prospects, it's important to note that someone like President Pimp would never stand a chance of being elected there. Nor is Russia home to tens of millions of utterly dependent people.
Russians are the only ones prepared to first strike nuke their oposing forces.
Thus the USA will only use sanctions against Putin, and play with nato execises.
The US does not have the balls to attack Russians in Ukraine. Because Putin's response will be to nuke them.
And rightly so.
As long as he only hits DC I'm all for it
A lot of innocents will still be killed, those parasites aren't worth it.
Putin doesn't pander to the West.....he works with them
Putin Gives ‘Order of Friendship’ Award to Rosneft Norwegian Partners….Gratitude to Haliburton, ExxonMobil, Schlumberger
IBM Opens Finance Processing Center In Russia
U.S. Trade With Russia Rises 7% As Well As Imports Up 23% – Putin
Russian Bank Hires Two Former U.S. Senators
U.S. Companies Like Baker Hughes Still Work On Russian Oil Projects
ExxonMobil Boosts Drilling Rights in Russia Giving It More Holdings There Than in U.S.
The phrase "Useful Idiots," springs to mind...
well. these point are quite valid. Im all pro peace and logic reasoning with Putin, but this is what, a few billion for few russians as it sounds (the articles I mean)
RSX just jumped almost 20% = Putin winning
....because he's looking out for Russians, unlike the shitbags in DC who sold out Americans and are corporate whores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftTeIVFqZ-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjmiyOgO66g
Both Russia and USSA have their oligarchs, but one of the key differences is that Russia's aren't dual citizens. Their national pride does not reside abroad.
And some dual-citizens are "returnable."
The banksters need to repay us.
I didn't make them "returnable," they did.
For all the all the Uncle Pooty lovers out there and who vehemently deny the parallels to Stalin, answer me this; Why has the Kremlin just closed all but one of the Crimean Tartar media outlets?
Edit: Down votes but no answers. I'm shocked I tell you shocked!
Must be a serious threat to Vlad from <10% of Crimean population...lol, please
Sure Squadron, you know the Tartars so well that they are just dying to revolt,and join the failed Ukrainian state, where pensions haven't been paid in months, the currency is destroyed, unemployment is over 50% and white supremicist groups want to eliminate all non whites.
You maidanites think you can pull anything out of your asses, and automatically make it truth because you want it to be so. If you think truth is relative, please walk in front of a truck and pretend it does not exit.
No wonder russia is kicking your sorry asses.
I appreciate your service, as do most Z/Her's. Don't conflate the issues.
Look at all your buddies that have been maimed, in the name of VALOR.
You were a pawn, in a sick sordid game with no positive outcome. (sound familiar)At least you learned how to become an avaitor.
I'm sickened at the loss of life, for no reason! Children with maimed Mothers & Fathers, makes me want to puke!
Brave soldiers that fought for their commanders, only to see the gains lost?
If you go to war, It must be decisive, and permanent!
SquadronV8F94: or all the all the Uncle Pooty lovers out there and who vehemently deny the parallels to Stalin, answer me this; Why has the Kremlin just closed all but one of the Crimean Tartar media outlets?
Edit: Down votes but no answers. I'm shocked I tell you shocked!
Read and learn....
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2009
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2010
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2011
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2012
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2013
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2014
https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2015
The latest one regarding bitcoin is a fucking hoot.
So you can't answer the question then. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked! Maybe you should read som history of Russian repression of the Tatars sice the 1700's, including Stalin's mass deportations.
Is that a 'no' on two out of three?
Maybe they should answer the questions on the broadcast license applications honestly, their privledges would then be returned ;-)
Maybe you would like to tell the readers here whom funds the 'independant' Tatar media and why an honest answer on the above applications is not provided. ;-)
So who funds RT? How many peoples of all kinds of different ethnicity have Russian imperialist scattered into the wastelands of Siberia over the centuries?
evasion will not work,,,here it is again >>
Answer troll.
Maybe you can tell us how you manage to see the keyboard to type while your face is burried in Putin's ass? But what difference does it make? What does it have to do with the legitimate national asperations of the Tartars, the Ukrainians or any of the other dozens on peoples the Russians have subjected to mass deportations, mass executions and/or mass starvation over the centuries? Since when have the Russians ever ever apologised for their crimes against humanity? When were they ever punished for the fact that they killed more in the Gulags than the Germans did in the concentration camps?
So how is Russian 21st century revanchism any different than German 20th century revanchism? Just because the venal corruption in Washington and Brussels is palpable does not make the Kremlin into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
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Do you have anything to support your assertion regarding independent Tatar media in Crimea? You Russophobes are well known for distortions and fantasy.
Stalin wasn't a Russian.
Stoogie,
Clear up that question about the GED application.
Did you officially apply as Stooge, Jr. or was it Stooge IV?
My what an appropriate moniker. Stalin instituted "Socialism in a single state" i.e. national socialism, Russia was his instrument. That makes him a Russian in my book. Catherine the Great was German by birth. Was she not Russian? President Sarkozy is of Polish extraction. Is he not French? The Plantagent kings of England were of Norman extraction. Were they not English? Next thing you'll tell us all those former Russian occupied nations were forced to declare their independence because they loved their Russian occupiers. Oh wait, I forgot, it was all a massive Jewish conspiricy to embarass the Kremlin! Never mind.
Stalin wasn't of Georgian "extraction", he was Georgian.
bored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EwnQHOlTWuI
"We survived Stalin, we will survive this."
http://ru.krymr.com/content/news/26930902.html
Beleive itnot there are Russians journalists who aren'd dead (yet) and don't suck Putin's cock.
Translation: we were a nobody under Stalin, and we are still a nobody...
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Something a bit odd I've noticed about these commenters who cower in fear whenever Putin is mentioned. They fancy a lot on cocks and sucking cocks and always more and more cocks.
Strange how many of them have these fantasies of cocks and butthole sodomy to the point of obsession. Maybe they are speaking to each other in code somehow.
Yes, it's a tribal thing.
Besides, you prefer Netanyahu's cock. It is kosher for Passover. Though you probably would prefer it less unlevened.
No?
Since the Tatars captured and sold Russians and Slavs to the Ottomans as slaves perhaps that "repression" would be as justified as sinking some British boats over a tea tax.
The recent independent polls in Crimea state that all groups support annexation by Russia;
"One year after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in the Black Sea, poll after poll shows that the locals there — be they Ukrainians, ethnic Russians or Tatars are mostly all in agreement: life with Russia is better than life with Ukraine."
That is from Forbes, hardly the most pro-Russian source on the planet:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/20/one-year-after-russia-a...
please stop trolling
That would be the Georgian named Stalin who also killed millions of Russians.
Tatars were slave traders.
Brutal
They raided especially into what is now South Ukraine and Crimea
Even almost to Moscow once
They took beautiful women for sex slave market, stronger others for labor and killed old and help;ess..
They needed repressed....
Russians finally put end to it and save a lot of Ukrainians.
Urainians, many, seem to forgot that...
Stalin, Lenin and their primarily Jewish Bolsheviks and assasins, murdered tens of millions of innocents in the Russian empire. Go learn real history before you make such asinine comparisons.
Yes Yes! it's the Jews, it's the Jews! Everything bad in the world for the last 4000 years is because of the Jews!
Yes that's correct, and we are most pleased that you admit this ;-)
But will you, hasbara troll, not be dismissed for telling the truth ? truth is surely not a part of your employment contract ?
LoL
Is this a trick question? Where will you be announcing the winner?
I consider myself an expert on Putiniana, but I must say your question is drawing blanks.
How about two out of three?
Don't be surprised by the down votes.
ZH is the home of many of the Paid Puutie Puppies.
They are controlled by the same people who shut down the opposition reporting in Crimea.
Likely shutting down the Tartar media so that they cannot send reports back with names of the people Puutie has sent to die in Crimea.
Likely shutting down the russian media in the Ukraine so that they cannot send reports back with names of the people Porkyschenko has sent to die in Novorossiya.
There, fixed it for you.
BTW, you ukies will NEVER get Crimea back, because it was never really yours. Suck on that, courtesy of Putin. The USSA and EU will never invade Russia, because, unlike you imbecilic maidanites, they do not want to die in a nuclear holocaust.
The mental impairments of Augustus really are a good source of humor. His total detachment from reality is always good for a laugh.
Funny how these propagandists never mention the government controlled Western "free" press. Evidently, at the US propaganda outlet Radio "Liberty", journalists can be fired for being only 99 percent anti-Putin.
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/the-moor-has-done-his-duty/
Could you name us some of the "media outlets" that - according to you - have been closed by "the Kremlin"?
The answer is that media outlet youre talking about delivarately did not filled the burocratic process on time. Another prefabricated issue to demonize Rusia.
Putin is like that kid that the bullies try to pound on, but find out too late that the kid knows Karate or something.
Dear Zion, Russia DOES have nukes.
The banksters need to repay us.
Here's another question for the Pooty lovers. How does a couple of fighter squadrons an a few hundred troops in the Baltics compare to Russia's military occupation with over half a million troops and thousands of tanks and aircraft in Eastern Europe for nearly half a century?
Let's see how many down votes and non-answer answers this one gets.
Those Paid Puutie Puppies long for the return of the East Germany desolate life. They hope to have high positions in the Stassi.
Somewhere, in one of Stephen Hawking's wormholes, your mindless comment must mean something.
If you ever get a chance, do explain its purport to us
Made me laugh, as the comparison is simple. Soviet Union military occupation of Eastern Europe ended almost 25 years ago. US military occupation of Western Europe continues to this day.
Better not feed these trolls. Could be the - lol - "avantgarde" of the "media offensive" Poroshenko had in mind when announcing his "ministry of information" several months ago.
Whatever the current ruler-oligarchs of this shit-heap-turned pseudo-state "Ukraine" tried to accomplish with IMF money so far - it has either caused civil casualties or - as in the case with internet trolls - unintentional hilarity.
The 'hilarity' Is your post. The so-called trolls from Cathrine the Great get 500 quid to post 24/7. Have to fill the quota. Where have you've been?
Get a life.
Does that mean I can go live in Europe, and get out of this fucked up country???
No, you cannot get out of Ukraine at this point.
Which Putin?
The recently bloated, sweaty, slouching Putin?
Or the previous thinner, dryer, confident Putin?
+1 I noticed that as well...whazzup with that?
Circle jerk each other much? Or are you the same person masturbating in their mothers basement?
So here we go with the latest Ukie disinfo, that Putin has many doubles and the original one must be dead. Sure, I'll bet the Chinese leadership cannot tell the difference because all white people look alike, LOL
If you don't like my posts down vote it and move along bitch
Nobody buys YOUR crap here, Victoria. So YOU move along.
Inciting cicvil wars in Ukraine, losing two so far. Must have hurt your ego.
As you wish......ass lick boy.
>>>>>Putin
>>>>>Obomber
Vladimir Putin Fact #0005:
Vladimir Putin once got bit by a rattle snake - after three days of excruciating pain and agony. . . the rattle snake died.
Putin Rocks!
(Just kidding). He's a facist asshole.
Barry's middle initial is C - not sure it its cretin or cunt
It would be interesting to read a thorough analysis of the current state of the Russian economy. I am still waiting to read one. Kudrin's remark on the annexation cost of the Krim has been wildly reported in western media but I think they got it all wrong particularly those that wrote about 200 billion cost annually. Kudrin talked about three waves of sanctions, one of which is in existence and two more have been drawn up. The next wave of sanctions, he said, could potentially trigger capital outflows of 50 billion per quarter. Capital outflow is not to be confused with cost. Unfortunately our press prints the releases from the news agencies without checking and hence they all copy the same bullshit.
The Russian economy is improving and investors are now flocking to Russia. Read the bloomberg article below. I love the photo - Putin, standing tall, one year later:-) http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-20/russia-rebounds-despite...
Russia is facing an existential threat from NATO. Russia cannot backdown nor will it back down. For those who have never been to Russia I suggest you go - the food is clean, the water is clean, the country and cities are more beautiful than in the US and the women are unreal. Men are men, women are women, Christians and white people are preferred and the faggots and rubish are not tolerated.
Putin is a hard core Christian and that is why the west hate him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d_yxJhmjk
Russia behaves more and more like Nordkorea/terrorist:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3020810/The-Apocalypse-Simply-Ch...
Oh no, it's the dumb pollack again ! With a link to a Daily Mail article, no less. Is this rag what passes for credible news source in Poland nowadays ? Or maybe you're still at work in that dinky, rainy, overcrowded island, and nobody there bothered to tell you that DM is one of their most pathetic tabloids... Well, keep studying it. You'll figure it out eventually...
Anyone who gives credit to Kudrin and declares it, gets immediatly discredited himself. This article is, therefore, discredited.
AH the obligatory Russia / Putin cheerleadng post fro ZH....
I meaan seriosuly Tye, you should at least consider ltting some time pass before continually pushing the Ptin propaganda, repeatedly