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To: GoldenState_Rose

80+%.

Putin is broadly liked in his country, I know of no serous person who disputes that.

And he has a vehement, dedicated core of detractors. They come from two schools:

1. The thugs who want his empire for themselves. Navalny and his ilk.
2. Jeffersonian (d)emocrats who want to forge a republic not unlike the US. Too small in number to even warrant suppression.


21 posted on 01/30/2018 11:32:43 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I do dispute it. Putin is widely credited for bringing order to the country. My observations there echo what Yekaterinburg mayor Evgeny Roizman said in an article today.

Most Russians at this point don’t “like” Putin. But they’re zombied out from the media and tired of revolutions. Some are just content to be better off than the 90s or retire with a basic pension. It’s the young people who have a pulse and want more for their lives and futures though.


23 posted on 01/30/2018 11:49:25 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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