This is a surprise to anyone? Russia has never had true democracy, including under Mr. "Bomb the Parliament" Yeltsin.

For Russia, that IS democracy.

I'll bet he was wearing false eyes when Bush looked into them.

In Sovieeeeeet Russia, government runs candidates.

Lets invade Russia and free the Russian people from this oppression.

Churchill2004: This is a surprise to anyone? Russia has never had true democracy, including under Mr. "Bomb the Parliament" Yeltsin.

Are you saying that things are perhaps backwards in Russia? If so, how does one even watch tv?

Why does he go to all that trouble with Diebold can take care of it?

/loser

main opposition? this guy wasn't the main opposition.

putin is overwhelmingly popular because many russians think he is the best fit to make a larger slice of the global for them. why he feels it is necessary to 'wipe everyone out' is probably just a personality trait carrying over from the work of his youth.

/not everyone dima. just my enemies.

submitter: Putin bans main opposition in presidential elections

It's called "managed democracy"- what a nice term for banning opposition and murdering journalists. Anna Politkovskaya's book is good/depressing reading for all of you.

I've worked there over the years, and it's gotten much worse lately.

Well, time to start a full scale land occupation of Russia for an indefinite amount of time in the name of national security.

It cracks me up how one of their state-run English news stations, Russia Today, runs these segments after our primaries that make it sound like our voting is a shame because of voting machine irregularities. They keep showing up on my Google news homepage.

Here's the South Carolina one (with hot reporter goodness) (pops)

How about operation steal your vodka and caviar Russian Freedom?

Regardless, lets turn this thread into a posting of hot russian women.

Now, please.

Sorry, supposed to be a strikeout...lol!

How about operation steal your vodka and caviar Russian Freedom?

no blood for vodka!

The Russian economy is doing so well because of the huge increases in the price of fossil fuels of which Russia is an extremely large exporter. This would be the same under any leader. But the Russian people, being I believe even more sheeplish than the American voting public, gives all of the credit to Putin who happened to be sitting in office when energy prices shot through the roof. If energy prices collapsed tomorrow, so would the Russian economy.

Russia is turning into the Saudi Arabia of the frozen north.

Fatslave: Lets invade Russia and free the Russian people from this oppression.

You know who else...?

/Aww, screw it, too easy.

FarkFish, the Time Person of the Year is the most influential person of the year. This is not necessarily the best person of the year, the nicest person of the year or even a good person period.

People don't seem to get that as there is an uproar in the US every time they choose a person of the year who is not an American hero.

T-Servo: submitter: Putin bans main opposition in presidential elections

It's called "managed democracy"- what a nice term for banning opposition and murdering journalists. Anna Politkovskaya's book is good/depressing reading for all of you.

I've worked there over the years, and it's gotten much worse lately.



Who would have been a better choice than Putin to run the country?

Bush is trying to figure out if he can get away with it.

"Just one little terrorist attack..."

But, but, I thought he was "straight forward and trustworthy!"

/Who am I quoting?

Dododado:

Who would have been a better choice than Putin to run the country?

Someone who wasn't an 'Ex'-KGB agent?

Felgraf: But, but, I thought he was "straight forward and trustworthy!"

/Who am I quoting?

Dododado:

Who would have been a better choice than Putin to run the country?

Someone who wasn't an 'Ex'-KGB agent?



Well, I have to agree with you. But at the time, who else was a possible choice?

Dododado: Felgraf: But, but, I thought he was "straight forward and trustworthy!"

/Who am I quoting?

Dododado:

Who would have been a better choice than Putin to run the country?

Someone who wasn't an 'Ex'-KGB agent?



Well, I have to agree with you. But at the time, who else was a possible choice?

There are over 140,000,000 people in Russia, or about the WWII population of the US. There is someone there who would make a better president.

Somehow..this is George W. Bush's fault.


Come on people! Think!!

Dododado: Well, I have to agree with you. But at the time, who else was a possible choice?

Putin wasn't well-known until Yeltsin gave him kudos, so any number of people could have been brought out of obscurity. Choosing a former KGB colonel and FSB head was asking for trouble.

FTA:

The Commission voted unanimously to refuse to register Kasyanov, 50, because it said hundreds of thousands of the signatures he had to submit in support of his candidacy were either forged, incorrect or spoiled.

Kasyanov denied so many signatures were invalid and said Putin had personally made the decision to bar him from election.

Not, "What the hell are you talking about? I didn't forge any signatures!" But, "Yeah, I cheated, but I didn't cheat THAT much."

I love Russia.

That man has a good soul.

bacccc: Why does he go to all that trouble with Diebold can take care of it?

/loser

You really shiat in the punch at this party. Nicely done.

But Bush told us he looked into Putin's soul when they first met and thought he was a good guy. Now when has Bush been wrong about anything?

Jubeebee: FTA:

The Commission voted unanimously to refuse to register Kasyanov, 50, because it said hundreds of thousands of the signatures he had to submit in support of his candidacy were either forged, incorrect or spoiled.

Kasyanov denied so many signatures were invalid and said Putin had personally made the decision to bar him from election.

Not, "What the hell are you talking about? I didn't forge any signatures!" But, "Yeah, I cheated, but I didn't cheat THAT much."

I love Russia.

In every petition, you'll get a number of signatures that aren't valid, even in America. People will sign their names as "Mickey Mouse" or a famous dead person, and a lot of the time stuff like that will slip under the radar in ones and twos.

Not in hundreds of thousands, though. You can't submit a petition with hundreds of thousands of obviously incorrect signatures on it and keep a straight face, except maybe in Chicago.

Whooo! U-S-S-R! U-S-S-R!

Crude: Somehow..this is George W. Bush's fault.


Come on people! Think!!

No, but an invasion would be.. I know you're just trying to be a dishonest asshat, but at least try to keep the horse in front of the cart.

Someone should look into that man's soul...

T-Servo: Dododado: Well, I have to agree with you. But at the time, who else was a possible choice?

Putin wasn't well-known until Yeltsin gave him kudos, so any number of people could have been brought out of obscurity. Choosing a former KGB colonel and FSB head was asking for trouble.

It's unlikely that he was chosen because Yeltsin liked him and wanted him as a successor, more likely that the KGB/FBS maneuvered Putin into that position and put pressure on Yeltsin to appoint him president in exchange for immunity.

proteus_b: putin is overwhelmingly popular because

journalists who publish bad things about him tend to die.

T-Servo: Dododado: Well, I have to agree with you. But at the time, who else was a possible choice?

Putin wasn't well-known until Yeltsin gave him kudos, so any number of people could have been brought out of obscurity. Choosing a former KGB colonel and FSB head was asking for trouble.



Right, but the Russian people didn't get much of a choice. Sigh...it reminds me of us now ;-) Is this it???

Lauraness,

AHHAHHAHAHHHA HAHhahhaHHAHAH AHAHHAHAAHAH!!! Seriously, I love that. HAHHAHA...

HAHHAHAHHA



:)

T-servo,

What kind of work did/do you do in Russia?

Dododado: Right, but the Russian people didn't get much of a choice. Sigh...it reminds me of us now ;-) Is this it???

Yep, which is why Rove endorsed Hillary...

Dododado: What kind of work did/do you do in Russia?

Policies with military-related environmental and health problems. I'm not terribly welcome there these days, but most NATO and OSCE folks aren't.

T-Servo: Policies with military-related environmental and health problems. I'm not terribly welcome there these days, but most NATO and OSCE folks aren't.


Did you ever meet Alexander Lebed?

Fatslave: Lets invade Russia and free the Russian people from this oppression.

lets finish up in Iraq first.
and afghanistan.
democracy is gonna kick in any minute now

Wotsa matter Poot-Poot? To much of a pussy to have yer main political rival put to death and then blame it on outside extremists? Musharef is just gonna view this a being a weak sister move, ya know. Somewhere off in the aether the shade of Stalin is go Tsk Tsk!

/Vlad (The "I'm paler") Putin: Putting the Dick back in Virtual Dictator since 1999.

Don't fark with me.

Slamguy: How about operation steal your vodka and caviar Russian Freedom?

Regardless, lets turn this thread into a posting of hot russian ladies.

Now, please.

Yes.









/Lockon.ru (new window)
//Eject Goose

Fatslave: Lets invade Russia and free the Russian people from this oppression.

Don't be silly.

America only invades countries that are KNOWN to not possess WMD.

/BushCo's lesson to countries considering a nuclear weapons program?
//Hurry the Fark Up!

Dododado: Did you ever meet Alexander Lebed?

No, and he was among the most interesting of the post-Soviet political actors. My contacts in Russia were fairly controlled, save for the academic community, where I had many former classmates. Hanging out with them might have irritated the FSB, and my last visit was rather cloak-and-dagger to get around NGO police. -But one friend lost her post at the Academy of Sciences at the same time, and I've felt partly responsible.

Since then, my work has shifted more toward Serbia/Kosovo and Bosnia-H. I now only deal with Russians during NATO meetings, and they are all party faithful apparachniks.

Proteous B: putin is overwhelmingly popular because many russians think he is the best fit to make a larger slice of the global for them.

* cue Music *

"When you wish upon a Tsar
Makes no difference who you are
When you wish upon a Tsar
You're Dreams come true."

/With all due apologies to the cryogentically frozen head of Unka Walt.

Bogeys..




Turkish SU-25s..


Locked. Launch Authorization..


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