Russia or Putin? Russia has every right to be able to defend itself. Putin, on the other hand....

Putin scares me and so does the fact that Russia has the world's largest group of neo-Nazis and it's still growing.

Also from that article, "Putin also said there was a ‘fierce fight’ for natural resources around the globe and many conflicts and foreign policy actions ‘smell of oil and gas’.”
But he's trying to annex pieces of the North Pole from the US for its mineral riches which have not been tapped into at all.
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-north-pole-is-ours-not-russias/
And he is strong arming Europe for their energy supplies.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/bg2083.cfm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR200705...

Maybe Jimmy Carter can work all this nonsense out for us.

Putin is a scary man.

We have to be careful with Russia. They like to build up their military and that is what they will Put-in all their rubles to purchase new tanks.

I actually admire Putin for pulling Russia together at a time where it could have easily fallen apart, and he chose to not run again for President. I lived in Russia for a while and I got the feeling that everyone loves Putin, they see him as a strong leader who reflects well on the nation.

Meh lots of countries have problems. I like Putin

tatiana do you also love satan J/k

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Letsgetloud!

Whoa, this is SUCH a Dr. Evil face he has going on here!
That country frightens me...
Almost as much as their leaders!

Is anybody surprised by this sort of hyper-aggressive and psycho behavior from Putin anymore? It seems like everything he does is intended to bring Russia one step back to the good ol' Soviet days with the KGB and stockpiling up nuclear arms.

That concerns me that he is purportedly popular with the people over there. No wonder he's able to get away with all the sh*t that he's been doing.

I definitely see a conflict with Russia coming in the future

I looked into Putin's eyes and I saw a unicorn and a rainbow. I am so sending him my BFF mix tape!

It is beyond me that anyone can say anything good about Putin at a time like this. There is NO freedom of speech. There are NO candidates running except Putin's puppet, a crazy communist and a total unknown. The guy that did stand a chance and raised 2 million signatures weren't allowed to attend. In fact he is probably in danger as we speak. And what about Chechnya? What about the raging nationalism? What about the corruption? What about withholding electricity from entire countries, in the winter time, to up the prices? Kremlin is broken. Putin is seeking to run the country for at least 4-8 more years as Prime Minister. It is nothing short of insane.

I have friends that work for humanitarian organisations in Russia and they are outraged but gagged, as are the whole state. What about writers, artist, journalists, politicians, social workers that are deprived their work? What about the growing population of poor? What about the crowded jails that contains hordes of teenagers charged for stealing food and other petty crimes, because they were starving? They get 8-15-20 years for stealing food. Tatjiana, there is nothing to celebrate.

trésjolie, I agree 100% about everything you just said. It's sad to see how people forget about Chechnya, the corruption and the complete lack of freedom of speech there's in Russa nowadays. Since Anna Politkóvskaya was killed, I was hoping for a stronger reaction from the rest of conutries from the European Union, but saldly nothing happened.