bouzane on 04 March 2012
''The guy before him was Boris Yeltsen. Putin I believe is more popular, though it's not that much of a differnece since they're essentially two peas in a pod.''
WHAT?!?!? They're the polar opposites. Yeltsen was pro-democracy, friendly to the West and led Russia to absolute financial ruin whereas Putin has consolodated power, stood up to America and restored some semblance of economic well-being within his nation. Personally, I am utterly perplexed that there is any opposition to Putin within Russia, it's like people forgot the extreme hardship thrust upon them by the incompetents who formerly ran the country into the ground.
