Vladimir Putin
was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus.
Upon graduation Putin was recruited into the KGB. In 1976 he completed the KGB retraining course in Okhta, Leningrad. Then, according to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, he served at the Fifth...Directorate of the KGB, which combated political dissent in the Soviet Union According to The Washington Post, he was spying on foreigners in Leningrad
From 1985 to 1990 the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany. Following the collapse of the East German regime, Putin was recalled to the Soviet Union and returned to Leningrad
He became acting President when president Boris Yeltsin...resigned in a surprising move, and then Putin won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
In July 2007, Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal wrote: "Russia has become, in the precise sense of the word, a fascist state. It does not matter here, as the Kremlin's apologists are so fond of pointing out, that Mr. Putin is wildly...popular in Russia: Popularity is what competent despots get when they destroy independent media, stoke nationalistic fervor with military buildups and the cunning exploitation of the Church, and ride a wave of petrodollars to pay off the civil service and balance their budgets. Nor does it matter that Mr. Putin hasn't re-nationalized the "means of production" outright; corporatism was at the heart...of Hitler's economic policy, too." [229]
In its January 2008 World Report, Human Rights Watch wrote in the section devoted to Russia: "As parliamentary and presidential elections in late 2007 and early 2008 approached, the administration headed by President Vladimir Putin cracked down on civil society and freedom of assembly.
Reconstruction in Chechnya did not mask grave human rights abuses...including torture, abductions, and unlawful detentions. International criticism of Russia’s human rights record remains muted, with the European Union failing to challenge Russia on its human rights record in a consistent and sustained manner."
The organization called President Putin a "repressive" and "brutal" leader on par with the leaders of Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
Upon graduation Putin was recruited into the KGB. In 1976 he completed the KGB retraining course in Okhta, Leningrad. Then, according to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, he served at the Fifth...Directorate of the KGB, which combated political dissent in the Soviet Union According to The Washington Post, he was spying on foreigners in Leningrad
From 1985 to 1990 the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany. Following the collapse of the East German regime, Putin was recalled to the Soviet Union and returned to Leningrad
He became acting President when president Boris Yeltsin...resigned in a surprising move, and then Putin won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
In July 2007, Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal wrote: "Russia has become, in the precise sense of the word, a fascist state. It does not matter here, as the Kremlin's apologists are so fond of pointing out, that Mr. Putin is wildly...popular in Russia: Popularity is what competent despots get when they destroy independent media, stoke nationalistic fervor with military buildups and the cunning exploitation of the Church, and ride a wave of petrodollars to pay off the civil service and balance their budgets. Nor does it matter that Mr. Putin hasn't re-nationalized the "means of production" outright; corporatism was at the heart...of Hitler's economic policy, too." [229]
In its January 2008 World Report, Human Rights Watch wrote in the section devoted to Russia: "As parliamentary and presidential elections in late 2007 and early 2008 approached, the administration headed by President Vladimir Putin cracked down on civil society and freedom of assembly.
Reconstruction in Chechnya did not mask grave human rights abuses...including torture, abductions, and unlawful detentions. International criticism of Russia’s human rights record remains muted, with the European Union failing to challenge Russia on its human rights record in a consistent and sustained manner."
The organization called President Putin a "repressive" and "brutal" leader on par with the leaders of Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
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