Well, let's think about this logically here. You asked me to give you a reason to hate Putin. Are we to take from this that you do not oppose Obama, because he is just like Putin, albeit he does not kill journalists? Your reply does not make sense.
Secondly, I am not understanding, again, this false dichotomy where we have to keep going with "Well, Obama is bad too," to everything that is said about Putin.
The United States is not Russia. We still have Cruz, Palin, and other conservatives in the media and government. There are no Cruz's in Russia. It is a one party dictatorship made to look like a multi-party system, with the dictatorship having full control over the media and even over most of its "opposition."
Those who keep making these moral relativistic points about the USA and the "former" Soviet Union are engaging in absurdities.
Not good, but I haven’t seen any stories to that effect, but I have seen a story that said Jews have it better there than since the czars (still not great, but better than before).
Here's a good link to get started:
http://www.persecution.org/category/countries/asia/russia/
As for anti-semetism, I would becareful with this, as members of the regime are, indeed, overtly anti-semitic, although Putin says the opposite. Meanwhile, he is supporting Iran's nuclear program and other anti-Israel states. Russia is the type of country where they always speak out of both sides of their mouth on everything.
This is the first lesson to learn when understanding the strange world of Russia, where nothing is really what it seems.
I don’t know enough there...I would like to know both sides of that.
Some more links for you:
http://www.riskandforecast.com/useruploads/files/pc_flash_report_russian_connection.pdf
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/hungary-s-far-right-backed-by-rolling-moscow-roubles-1.1034539
http://demdigest.net/blog/europes-far-right-putins-western-allies/
These articles are one sided, as they tend to make anyone who is "right" a boogeyman. But Russia's flirtation and support of these parties is part of an overall strategy to converge groups from the right and extreme right with the extreme left in support of Pro-Russian policies.
Not too hot on the nukes, but he actually was working with us to slow things down...until we blamed him for the plane crash.
This is all theater, as Iran has no use for a nuclear facility to begin with, being an oil rich country. It is merely tactics, in collusion with the Iranian regime, to buy time for their nuclear program.
Don’t waste your time arguing with Putin’s brigade. After all, they get paid by the post. They appear every time something negative has been said about putya then slink back to Mordor. It would be a very educational and informative exercise if the Moderator showed us the originating point of their IP addresses.