Leonid Mlechin. Putin. Russia is faced with a choice (№ 274775)

Putin is undoubtedly one of the most intelligent and cultured of heads of state in the modern history of Russia, - wrote Professor Dmitri Yefimovich Furman. First, after Lenin, knows a foreign language and never sibusiso accented with... Putin is very well liked. Some, of course, hate. But he no one calls those contemptuous ridicule and shame, which used to cause the powerless citizens, many of our all-powerful rulers...