Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.
Putin is cool though, as a person.
Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.
I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations. The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.
Not corrupt? lol. He's crushed every opponent he can get his hands on. Crushed all free press. Learn some recent Russian history, please.