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Putin does have monitors in the newsrooms, news sites, and newspapers. They not only stop bad news they must promote good pro-Putin news. He has the power Obama wants. What I cannot understand is why anyone who opposes Obama would go along with Putin as if he were a fine conservative. You cannot be a true Conservative and favor a dictatorship that enforces, say, Christianity. True Christians are Christians regardless of the state, like the early Christians, not because the dictator tells them to be a Christian. Anyone who could support Putin because he forces Christianity on his people would feel more comfortable with the Islamists. They're theocrats, not conservatives. And Putinistas are not conservative or libertarian. They're either dupes or authoritarian statists.