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{{See also|Speeches of Vladimir Putin}}

{{See also|Speeches of Vladimir Putin}}

[[File:24 years of Putin.PNG|right|300px|thumb|InfoDefenseENGLISH: "These numbers show exactly why the [[collective West]] fears and hates President Putin. They expected a weakened Russia they could control, but instead got a strong, economically resilient nation with a leader who stands firm on independent domestic and foreign policies. Putin’s Russia isn’t bending to their will, and they can’t handle it."]]

[[File:24 years of Putin.PNG|right|300px|thumb|InfoDefenseENGLISH: "These numbers show exactly why the [[collective West]] fears and hates President Putin. They expected a weakened Russia they could control, but instead got a strong, economically resilient nation with a leader who stands firm on independent domestic and foreign policies. Putin’s Russia isn’t bending to their will, and they can’t handle it."]]

In the Yeltsin years during the transition to capitalism, corrupt foreign and domestic [[oligarch]]s took control of the country. Putin's rise to power as a [[populist]] was by taxing and driving out corrupt foreign oligarchs whom the public viewed as looting the country, and throwing in jail corrupt domestic oligarchs as tax cheats.{{fact}} The oligarchs were his political enemies. Putin's success as a leader in Russia came about by reigning in the power of oligarchs.{{fact}} He allowed them to run the Russian economy provided that they stay out of politics, unlike Western so-called "democracies".{{fact}} Contrary to [[Western]] and [[CIA]] propaganda, Putin is not a friend of or controlled by oligarchs; rather, the oligarchs bow to his instructions and demands.{{fact}}

In the Yeltsin years during the transition to capitalism, corrupt foreign and domestic [[oligarch]]s took control of the country. Putin's rise to power as a [[populist]] was by taxing and driving out corrupt foreign oligarchs whom the public viewed as looting the country, and throwing in jail corrupt domestic oligarchs as tax cheats. The oligarchs were his political enemies. Putin's success as a leader in Russia came about by reigning in the power of oligarchs.  He allowed them to run the Russian economy provided that they stay out of politics, unlike Western so-called "democracies".{{fact}} Contrary to [[Western]] and [[CIA]] propaganda, Putin is not a friend of or controlled by oligarchs; rather, the oligarchs bow to his instructions and demands.

Putin has many controversial statements on [[Communism]] and has a good attitude toward the [[Muslim]] minorities living in the Russian Federation. [[Alexander Dugin]] argues:<ref>http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/russian-conservative-view-putin-interview-alexander-dugin</ref>

Putin has many controversial statements on [[Communism]] and has a good attitude toward the [[Muslim]] minorities living in the Russian Federation. [[Alexander Dugin]] argues:<ref>http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/russian-conservative-view-putin-interview-alexander-dugin</ref>