And many Russians do not want to be ruled over by corrupt autocrats. Putin’s opposition has risked their lives and sometimes lost their lives in resisting his 22-year brutal dictatorship. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Navalny, Yulia Latynina, and Boris Nemtsov are just some of the most famous personalities in opposition to Putin. All the aforementioned are in prison, in exile, or have been murdered.
Just one of Putin’s palace complexes (in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea) is estimated to be worth $1,400,000,000 (that’s 1.4 Billion for you folks in Rio Linda as Rush liked to say). Navalney was an anti-corruption activist and now sits in prison because he exposed the elaborate palace complexes of both Medvedev and Putin.
Putin makes war upon his own people.