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Kasz216 on 05 March 2012
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Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
spurgeonryan said:
Who do Russian like more? Putin or the last President in Russia before him?

First you have to decide what you mean by last president before him. 

Do you mean the guy who was keeping his seat warm up until he re-ran as he controlled things as PM, or the guy before him?

 

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.

Up until recently the main opposition party was a "back to communism" party so it's not like there has been much competition.

The current opposition party is essentially a "Get Vladmir Putin out of office" Party that's a wide coalition of different groups with different goals.  Human rights, right wing parties, left wing parites, communists...

Even if they were to win, it's questionable if they would accomplish anything.

The main opposition is still the Communists if you go by the numbers. The liberal opposition has periodic re-awakenings since the start of the Federation, but they have never been able to beat even the Communists at the polls, let alone be able to touch United Russia

The sad part is the Communists have been run by the same guy for 20 years now. Gennady Zyuganov has run in every Russian presidential election, and he was an old man when the Soviet Union fell.

The Russians HATE Yeltsin, btw. Yeltsin and Gorbachev are both loathed by the people who vote Putin, and the antipathy for Yeltsin is near-universal (liberal opposition's not keen on his legacy either).

Thought Democracy Now was larger at the moment. (though granted have a large ammount of communists and not all the communists.)

 

I know Yeltsin's not popular, but really, he and Putin aren't much different.  Just your typical corrpt politician.

Didn't know Gorbachev was unpopular though.

Guess i'm too used to the song.