Vladimir Putin: the world's favorite IRL Bond Villian

[Adi Shankara]

He really knows how to fly one of these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Vladimir_Putin_Cockpit_TU-160_Bomber.jpg

Saves a TV crew from a charging Siberian Tiger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8CU7Xpfpc&feature=related

Is a black belt in Judo, and even offered to join the Olympic team:

http://blog.jameshom.com/images/putinjudo.jpg

That, and he is the type of final boss who wouldn't be afraid to go down in hand to hand combat, possibly with an extra-special death (another pic of epic):

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2009/08/04/0804_vladimir_putin_ap09080407547_ap_02-1.jpg

Finally, he's a KGB operative:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Vladimir_Putin_in_KGB_uniform.jpg

nuff said.

[khad]

Putin never had that much control. If he did, then Mr. Sober Yeltsin AKA Medvedev would have never gotten into office.

[scarletghoul]

the putin cult is hilarious

[NGNM85]

It is.

[Wanted Man]

Quite a lot has changed in two years in that region, actually. Take, for instance, Lukashenko becoming buddies with Saakashvili.

Of course, all you hear in the news here is that the Russians are some kind of evil monolithical force, and everybody's merely Putin's strawman.

[Queercommie Girl]

Putin isn't a socialist, nuff said.

Though by capitalist standards he is better than many others.

[Adi Shankara]

Of course, all you hear in the news here is that the Russians are some kind of evil monolithical force, and everybody's merely Putin's strawman.

You hear it in the Russian news too :D