RUSSIA

Russia’s Mighty Mouse

Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor seems like a loyal nobody. But he could turn out to be a welcome surprise.

By Owen Matthews | NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated Feb 25, 2008

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Posted By: PAvel Timofeev @ 02/27/2008 8:22:20 AM

Comment: This is not exactly the same what I tried to say about Medvedev. Not the "luxury" but his professionalism attracted our interest. Yes, he wore expensive suites but that was not showing-off. His image corresponded with his status of successful corporate lawyer. And we, his students, dreamt not only about Parker and Versace but of becoming such experienced and professional lawyers and successful scientists like Medvedev.

Former student of Dmitry Medvedev
Posted By: PAvel Timofeev @ 02/27/2008 8:21:22 AM

Comment: This is not exactly the same what I tried to say about Medvedev. Not the "luxury" but his professionalism attracted our interest. Yes, he wore expensive suites but that was not showing-off. His image corresponded with his status of successful corporate lawyer. And we, his students, dreamt not only about Parker and Versace but of becoming such experienced and professional lawyers and successful scientists like Medvedev.

Pavel Timofeev, former student of Dmitry Medvedev
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Posted By: Ilia_Prahov @ 02/19/2008 9:11:04 AM

Comment: Putin and Medvedev are both criminals, they are members of the same criminal group that usurped power in Russia. Whatever their personal relationship will be, it doesn't mean Russian policy towards the West will change in any fashion.
Posted By: Ilia_Prahov @ 02/19/2008 9:10:56 AM

Comment: Putin and Medvedev are both criminals, they are members of the same criminal group that usurped power in Russia. Whatever their personal relationship will be, it doesn't mean Russian policy towards the West will change in any fashion.
Posted By: getzel @ 02/18/2008 10:59:30 PM

Comment: Comment: The KGB is the marketing team for the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company,,,see KGB handbook on manipulating ethnic masses by Getzel. KGB: Kick up trouble, Go sell weapons , Bring a nice long war and sell lots of weapons...The Song Remains The Same (Led Zeppelin)
Posted By: bigtomcook @ 02/18/2008 12:06:49 PM

Comment: Bush is nearly done, thank goodness....and Putin hopefully is nearly done also.....two fiefdoms coming to an end.
Posted By: bigtomcook @ 02/18/2008 12:05:25 PM

Comment: This message board is about the article here concerning Putin.....this is not a site for selling your stupid ugly porn pics that nobody wants to see.
Posted By: rrllee @ 02/18/2008 9:30:58 AM

Comment: unlike bush, he does not say one thing and do another.
- Posted By: Dana777 @ 02/18/2008 4:35:54 PM
  
  Comment: once a KGB is always a KGB.
- Posted By: Dana777 @ 02/18/2008 4:34:00 PM
  
  Comment: that shows how much you know...
Posted By: Braes @ 02/18/2008 5:07:55 AM

Comment: Putin is Russia's Bush. Better days are ahead.
Posted By: putinist @ 02/17/2008 1:43:05 PM

Comment: intermedusa

Paranoia? Visit a doctor until it is to late... But I am happy that you and you like have an anger and grit with your teeth. That means that everything in Russia is going the right way. Keep it up, Mr Putin!

But i
Posted By: putinist @ 02/17/2008 1:42:39 PM

Comment: intermedusa

Paranoia? Visit a doctor until it is to late... But I am happy that you and you like have an anger and grit with your teeth. That means that everything in Russia is going the right way. Keep it up, Mr Putin!

But i
Posted By: putinist @ 02/17/2008 1:41:19 PM

Comment: intermedusa

Paranoia? Visit a doctor until it is to late... But I am happy that you and you like have an anger and grit your teeth. That means that everything in Russia is going the right way. Keep it up, Mr Putin!

But i
Posted By: intermedusa @ 02/17/2008 4:07:47 AM

Comment: PUTIN THE GREAT MURDERER AND CROOK WORTH 30 BILLION

By Larry Houle
www.eudemocracy.net
E-mail: intermedusa@yahoo.com

In 8 short years Putin has gone from a salary of US $2000.00 per month to becoming one of the world???s richest men with a personal fortune of 30 billion.

In an interview published November 12 in the German newspaper Die Welt, Belkovsky said, "The people sitting in the Kremlin are direct representatives and joint owners of large scale enterprises. Putin is also a big businessman. He controls 37 percent of the shares of Surgutneftegaz [Russia's fourth-largest oil producer] with the market value [of Putin's putative stake] coming to $20 billion. Moreover, he controls 4.5 percent of the shares of Gazprom [Russia's natural gas monopoly]. In the company Gunvor, which sells oil, Putin has [a] 50 percent [stake] through his representative Gennady Timchenko. Last year, [Gunvor's] turnover came to $40 billion and its profits $8 billion."

There can be no doubt that President Putin is behind the recent assassinations in Moscow and London. His is the mind that is directing these evil acts with total deniability, of course. What Putin has established in the Kremlin is a Murder Inc. Mafia controlling total political and economic power. Death squads are roaming out from the Kremlin. Anyone who threatens ??? this power ??? is eliminated. The first act of nuclear terrorism came not from Al-Qaeda and Osma bin laden but from the Kremlin and President Putin. Just as Russia was about to emerge from 1000 years of darkness, into the light of democratic freedom - Putin and his KGB gang has plunged his people back into the abyss. Quoting the famous Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin ???Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.??? This is the Russia, Putin has created. An immoral, lawless wasteland. He is a traitor to his country. He is a traitor to his people.
Posted By: getzel @ 02/16/2008 8:49:16 PM

Comment: The KGB is the marketing team for the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company,,,see KGB handbook on manipulating ethnic masses by Getzel. KGB: Stir up trouble, sell weapons , have a nice long war...
Posted By: getzel @ 02/16/2008 8:44:44 PM

Comment: It was the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company then (1918-1991: promise communism; deliver slavery of a military industrial complex, 2 eggs and a piece of bread is the minimum you can eat and show for work not communist equal sharing) and it is the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company now. The Song Remains The Same (Led Zeppelin)