Putin Reelected

[Magyar the Conqueror]

no. because russia not an aggressor.

Russia, Pacifist since 459

[Leshy]

To be honest, I would rather have Mr. Putin as our president then Obama and the rest of the fake crooks running for candidacy , 1,000,000x!

Be careful what you wish for. Mr. Putin, a man with fathomless stomach.

[Mercury]

Putin may be good for Russia, but he certainly isn't good for the Middle East or European Union.

[Leshy]

[poiuytrewq0987]

Russia, Pacifist since 459

Russia is simply powerful. Aggression is a natural part of being powerful.

[poiuytrewq0987]

[Magyar the Conqueror]

That shirt must be ripped of ASAP.

[Treffie]

Ha ha, so true!

I love their expressions. He looks like an old pretentious lady - it very well suits to his affinity of plastic procedures.

I think he's slowly morphing into the Bride of Wildestein

[Joe McCarthy]

Putin may be good for Russia, but he certainly isn't good for the Middle East or European Union.

He's not good for Russia either. He has enacted anti-hate legislation directed against Russian patriots, flooded the country with immigrants (Russia is second only to the US in number of immigrants, and has more per capita, given its smaller population), rules over a regime very accurately described as a mafia state, has further reinforced Russia's alienation from Western Civilization by supporting the worst regimes, has clamped down on Russia's nascent free institutions, and has done next to nothing about the moral crisis that pervades Russian society. His popularity, such as it, rests on energy revenue, and the fanboyism of the Western fringe, who don't so much like Russia (most of these types wish Nazi Germany had destroyed Russia, after all) but will side with any semi-credible opponent of the United States. The whole aura around the man is really quite pathological.

[Terek]

Russia's not going anywhere soon. North Caucasus is quite loyal (cause they recieve huge subsidies) and it's Russian Nationalists who want it independent and not locals.

Well, you are wrong. Dagestanis don't wont independence - they want money from Moscow.

This is correct. Right now, apart from Islamic extremists, independence is just an ideal of Chechens abroad. Even for me, it was much easier to imagine an independent Vainakh state when I lived abroad, at a distance, now it is so obviously just impossible. This is not the time of Dudayev now. Such things happen that the chance or what seemed it has passed and we are set back so much in this kind of progress. The remaining pro-independence are connected basically with Kavkaz Imarat, they are not the intellectuals.
Most people here yes they want Putin because he gives money. But the whole thing (the reconstruction, infrastructure in Grozny for example) is such a facade, the money goes to the pockets of leaders who can do anything. And people love Kadyrov because first it is a bad situation for those who make it obvious if they don't, and second, many people only know of Kadyrov or war, and they don't want more of war.
To me personally, I don't care at all about politicians, it is all the same, I care about what people choose to do with their lives and for their nation, that is most important.

Really, the situation in the Caucasus is most difficult for everyone. It is Russia's mistake from recent and from past history. you can say be careful what you wish for. It is now that ALL the Caucasian republics hang upon the Russian government for economic support and it is not working. Especially not in Ingushetia. Without Russia we would all disintegrate into nothing, financially. But Russia does not want to continue giving all this money and of course that makes sense, and even more, to be so pathetically dependent on a government like Putin's is not in Chechen nature. It is a sickness that result after so many years of war.