[MarMema]

Finally, Putin as of September 21, 2006 had a 77% approval rating in Russia

In a June survey of Russians by Moscow's Yuri Levada polling center, 58 percent of those polled approved of the "Russia for Russians" slogan, almost twice the level recorded in 1998. One out of 5 of those polled said all non- Russians should be evicted from "traditionally Russian territories."

Yes, Putin and his new nationalism are popular in Russia. On that we can agree.

[M. Espinola]

"Comrade" requires some basic math lessons.

You know, I checked & checked and even rechecked, however nowhere is there a poll even coming close to stating 77% of Russians support their new Czar, but if 'Comrade" says it so, whom are we to question? :)

What is reprinted below if well worth noting every-time we are informed Putin's Russia is just a wonder place:

>In 2004, neo-Nazis killed 44 people across Russia -- more than double the previous year, Amnesty International reported. One of the victims, 9-year- old Hurshida Sultanova from Tajikistan, was stabbed 11 times in front of her father and older brother by about 10 neo-Nazis in St. Petersburg. Another Tajik girl, Nikufar Sangbaeva, 5, died when skinheads beat her and her relatives with brass knuckles and metal rods at a train station. Last month, a dozen skinheads beat a Vietnamese man to death in a Moscow park, chanting, "Russia for Russians!" Boris Prolorov, 28, a member of the ultra-nationalist Russian Thought movement, said the victims were to blame for their own deaths. "Those Tajik girls should have stayed in Tajikistan," said Prolorov, who shaves his head and, like Oleg, wears all black. "Tell me, where do all these uncontrollable blacks come from?"

Nuff said ...