Mother Russia is a much different
country from the Stalin gulags. With all the faults of a long tradition of
authoritarian rule, it is natural for observers in the West to be suspect of the
latest would be Czar. The remnants of the cold war linger with concerns of the
true motives and goals of a second Vladimir Putin era. By most reliable
accounts, he never left the power circle prior to his return as President. Upon
his latest election, The Guardian published an article Putin's election victory is a headache for the
west. "Nobody is any doubt that the Putin who returns to the Kremlin in
May is the same Putin who has effectively run Russia for the past 12 years –
prickly, uncompromising, suspicious and fond of snide remarks about western
hypocrisy and double standards."
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