Friday, December 09, 2011

The Czar is back - But why is the West worried by Rakesh Krishnan Simha

dec 9th, 2011 CE

another view on russia. actually the decibel level in the screaming about putin has gone down quite a bit -- for instance, the economist is no longer dissing him in every issue. the NATO types have realized that russia under a strong leader is a more sensible beast than failed-state pak and its sponsor china.

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The Czar is back – But why is the West worried by Rakesh Krishnan Simha
 

Vladimir Putin is the man the West loves to hate. There is such a huge industry of commentators, leaders and media people so completely obsessed with the return of the Russian leader as President that the gravity defying jobless rate in the West would jump a couple of percentage points if he suddenly retired.

 

Western commentators are gleefully pointing out that United Russia has suffered a “massive” fall of 14 percentage points in the December 4 parliamentary election. But the fact is Putin’s party still took home half the votes, and they are streets ahead of their closest opponents, the Communists, who got a fraction over 19 percent. Barring an unlikely upset, Putin will be back in the saddle in March, haunting the West, or more precisely the Anglo-American axis, for many more years.

 
 
 
 
About the author: Rakesh Krishnan Simha is a New Zealand-based writer and a columnist for Russia Behind the Headlines. He has previously worked with Businessworld, India Today and Hindustan Times, and was news editor with the Financial Express.
 
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