Tsar Putin
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY из газеты The Daily Mail поездил по российским регионам, вернулся и написал так, как только в Англии умеют. Хорошо бы на русский перевести и чтоб побольше людей прочло. Как обычно, у обдолбанных "парадом победы" уйдет на понимание очевидного лет двадцать, после чего снова будут валить статую Дзержинского (которую наверное успеют восстановить)

Russia: A totalitarian regime in thrall to a Tsar who's creating the new Facist empire

As he surveys the nation today he reminds me of that chilling poem by Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting, in which the dreaded bird sits at the top of a tall tree musing: "Now I hold all Creation in my foot - I kill as I please because it is all mine - I am going to keep things like this."

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When Putin came to power, the world price of crude oil was $16 dollars a barrel; it has now soared to more than $120 dollars - and no one knows where or when this bonanza will end.
... It has not helped to resurrect a health service which is on its knees (and is ranked by the World Health Organisation as 130th out of the 190 countries of the UN), or to rebuild an education system which is so under-funded that the poor have to pay to get their children into a half-decent school or college.

Russia may be a member of the G8 whose GDP (because of oil) should soon overtake the United Kingdom, but, in many ways, it is more like a Third World country.