[George W. Bush]

I can't quite believe the posts on this thread?

All of you who thought Putin, the old KGB commissar, was some kind of boy scout, raise your hands.

Russia is still in the hands of the KGB. There's been no change in who runs that backward mess of a country.

[L`enn]

Putin, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, all flawed, all old Commies. You color their Red heritage with the knowledge that being a hardline Red was a fatal move in this era. Some serious schizophrenia in their leadership for the last 15 yrs.