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'''Dr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, J.D., Ph.D.''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) affectionately known as '''Uncle Vova''',{{fact}} is the [[Christian]] socially [[conservative]] statesman and president of the [[Russian Federation]],<ref>[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/how-russia-became-a-leader-of-the-worldwide-christian-right-214755/ How Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right], By CASEY MICHEL, ''[[Politico]]'', February 09, 2017. politico.com</ref> a position he has held since 2012,{{fact}} after serving as prime minister since May 8, 2008,{{fact}} and previously serving as [[president]] since December 31, 1999<ref>[[Boris Yeltsin]] resigned from the presidency on that day, and Putin was later elected president by 54% of the electorate on March 26, 2000.</ref> Putin holds a law degree where he specialized in international trade<ref>https://www.forexlive.com/news/a-little-known-but-scary-fact-about-vladimir-putin-20220920/</ref> and a doctorate in [[economics]] focusing on energy and particularly the field of oil and gas.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250171761_The_Putin_Thesis_and_Russian_Energy_Policy</ref> In keeping with the axiom that governments derive their just powers by the consent of the governed, Putin announced his candidacy for re-election as President of the Russian Federation in December 2023. In Russia, where the President is directly elected by the people, Putin enjoyed an 80% approval rating for his handling of the economy and the [[foreign policy]] aggression of the Western powers and the United States in Ukraine which began in 2014.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/03/31/putins-domestic-approval-rating-reaches-highest-level-in-five-years/?sh=7b162a283694 Putin’s Domestic Approval Rating Reaches Highest Level In Five Years], Derek Saul, ''[[Forbes]], Mar 31, 2022. forbes.com</ref><ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putins-approval-rating-soars-since-he-sent-troops-into-ukraine-state-pollster-2022-04-08/ Putin's approval rating soars since he sent troops into Ukraine, state pollster reports], By Peter Hobson, ''[[Reuters]]'', April 8, 2022. reuters.com</ref><ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/ Vladimir Putin's approval rating in Russia monthly 1999-2023], Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 27, 2023. statista.com</ref>
Vladimir Putin's decision in February 2022 to intervene in the [[Donbas war|Ukraine civil conflict]] followed the precedents set by the [[Obama]] era doctrine of ''Responsibility to Protect'' or R2P articulated by UN ambassador [[Samantha Power]] during the 2011 [[Libyan war]] and sanctioned by [[UN Security Council]] Resolution 1973, the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] bombing of [[Serbia]] in 1998 to carve out the separatist province of [[Kosovo]], and the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventative war to protect civilians of the [[Donbas]]. The Donbas region had endured eight years of atrocities by the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup|Maidan regime]], which was preparing a large scale military action against Russian-speaking civilians in early 2022.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> Article 51 of the United Nations Charter allows for collective security arrangements.
{{See also|Speeches of Vladimir Putin}}
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}}
[[File:Vladtheimpaler.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Putin at a conference]]
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>
{{Cquote|If we consider the situation in Russia more closely, we will discover that almost all that is said in the West about Putin is wrong. It is a complete caricature. The most important criticism of Putin inside Russia is not from the liberals. Liberals represent the smallest part of the critics. They are absolutely marginal… So the West is absolutely wrong in thinking that there is this big liberal opposition to Putin that is artificially kept down. The real opposition to Putin is growing completely on the other side of Russian society. It is growing discontent with "lunar" Putin, against the Putin who is surrounded by liberals. All the government is completely not only corrupt, it consists of pro-Western liberals. Nothing has changed after the last election.}}
===2007 Munich Security Conference speech===
{{See also|Putin 2007 Munich Security Council speech}}
Between 2000 when Vladimir Putin became the president of the Russian Federation and 2007, he was wined and dined, glad-handed by the rich and famous, praised by [[George W. Bush]] and greeted with decorous respect by the [[British royal family]]. That all changed with President Putin's address to the [[Western alliance|western political elite]] on February 10, 2007 at the 43rd Munich Security Conference.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Jg_75wla-nE Putin's famous historic Munich speech in 2007]. English voice over.</ref> Putin told the gathering that Russia would cooperate with the [[Western alliance|Western powers]] on areas of mutual interest such as [[nuclear proliferation]] and international [[terrorism]]. The offer of cooperation fell on deaf ears.
==Quotes==
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*“Look at what they're doing with their own people...It is all about the destruction of the family, of cultural and national identity, perversion and abuse of children, including pedophilia, all of which are declared normal in their life”.
*"Anyone “I think all sober-minded people who doesn't regret really are involved in [[politics]] understand that the passing idea of a Russian threat to, for example, the Soviet Union has no heart[[Baltics]] is complete madness. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains Are we really about to fight [[NATO]]? How many people are there in the NATO countries? About 600 million, correct? There are 146 million people in Russia."<ref>Parfitt, Tom (December 23 Yes, 2007)we're the biggest nuclear power. But do you really think that we're about to conquer the Baltics using [https://www[nuclear weapons]]? What is this madness?” *“Look at what they're doing with their own people.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/23/russia.tomparfitt Spy who came in from It is all about the colddestruction of the family, of cultural and national identity, perversion and abuse of children, including [[pedophilia]], all of which are declared normal in their life”. *"Parent number one'and 'The Guardianparent number two': 'birth parent' instead of '[[mother]]', banning the use of the phrase 'breast milk' and replacing it with 'human milk' so that people who are insecure about their [[gender]] will not be upset. Retrieved September 15..This is nothing new...In the 1920s the Soviet so-called ''kulturträgers'' also invented the so-called ‘[[newspeak]]’, 2018proposing that in this way they could create a new consciousness and change society's values”.<ref>https://loveexpands.com/quotes/vladimir-putin-1324586/</ref>
*“Either they don't understand what they are doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything in which case they are dangerous and corrupt.”<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin/putin-offers-transcript-to-prove-trump-did-not-pass-russia-secrets-idUSKCN18D1EA</ref>
*"We are going to pursue terrorists everywhere[[Berlusconi]] is being tried because he lives with women. If they are in the airporthe were [[homosexual]], we will pursue them in the airport. And if we capture them in the toilet, then we will waste them in the outhouseno one would lift a finger against him."<ref>https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1202445</ref>
*“I think all sober"There is also the so-minded people who really are involved in politics understand called [[liberal]] idea, which has outlived its purpose. Our [[Western alliance|Western]] partners have admitted that some elements of the liberal idea of a Russian threat to, for examplesuch as [[multiculturalism]], the Baltics is complete madness. Are we really about to fight NATO? How many people are there in the NATO countries? About 600 million, correct? There are 146 million people in Russiano longer tenable. Yes, we're the biggest nuclear power"<ref>https://www. But do you really think that we're about to conquer the Baltics using nuclear weapons? What is this madness?”ft.com/video/a49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08</ref>
*If nukes head towards Russia we are going "Russia’s ethnic and cultural diversity is an all-conquering force that many people outside the country fail to Paradisegrasp...Our nation was built on the value of multinational harmony...It’s the most important foundation of our consolidation, but which only becomes stronger in the face of foreign pressure and threats...Our adversaries are people with neocolonial thinking, dimwits in fact, who do not understand that this diversity makes us stronger...When they won't have time to repenttalk about us, they think about themselves and imagine that we are like them."<ref>https://youtu..They say Russia has to be/YeNwyVG8Egs</ref>partitioned into dozens of small states...The goal is clear – to subjugate them, exploit them and use them for profit...But attempts by these morons to sow discord within Russia are doomed to failure.”
*"Hitler tried I have the impression – and this is particularly true for European countries – that these former colonial powers are still living in the paradigm of colonial philosophy, and they are used to destroy Russialiving at the expense of others. Everyone needs They still fail to remember how that endedget rid of this paradigm in their daily policies. But it is time to draw certain conclusions and act differently, in a more civilised manner."- September 16, 2022.<ref>http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/press_conferences/69366</ref>
*"If you try It’s probably possible to bite Russiafalsify anything...Just like the previous elections in the United States were falsified through voting by mail...Well, we'll knock your teeth outit’s clear what voting by mail is...They bought ballots for $10, wrote them in, and without any supervision from observers, tossed them into mailboxes...And there you go."
*"[[Berlusconi]] is being tried because he lives “Washington has a habit of discarding previous agreements depending on political whims, as seen with womenits exit from the multilateral agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. If he ..The Ukraine conflict is rooted in the same problem...We were homosexual, no one told as far back as 1991 – by the then-US administration – that NATO would lift a finger against himnot expand further east...Since then, there have been five waves of NATO expansion.."<ref>https://www.azquotesHow can we agree on anything if every new administration starts from scratch?”.com/quote/1202445</ref>
*"There is also Let me repeat: we did not start the so-called [[liberal]] ideamilitary activities, which has outlived its purposewe are trying to end them. Our Western partners have admitted that some elements of ..They started the liberal ideawar...For eight years, such as [[multiculturalism]]that war continued – a war to exterminate people who live there, are no longer tenablewho feel themselves related by blood to Russia and Russian culture."<ref>https://www.ft.com/video/a49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08</ref>How long were we supposed to tolerate that?”
*"Parent number one' and 'parent number two': 'birth parent' instead of 'mother', banning the use of the phrase 'breast milk' and replacing it with 'human milk' so that people who are insecure about their gender What is happening now in Ukraine will not be upset...This is nothing new..never suit Russia.In the 1920s the Soviet soRussia there will never be anything neo-called ''kulturträgers'' also invented the so-called ‘[[newspeak]]’, proposing that in this way they could create a new consciousness and change society's values”Nazi.<ref>https://loveexpands.com/quotes/vladimir-putin-1324586/</ref>"
*"We all hear about “I have many friends since childhood who are Jewish. They say that Zelensky is not a Jew, he is a disgrace to the so-called ‘Putin price hike’ in the WestJewish people. When I see ..I’m not joking, thisis not irony...The current Ukrainian authorities openly celebrate Nazi figures, I wonder most notably [[Stepan Bandera]], a Ukrainian nationalist who they expect would buy this stupidity – people who cannot read or writecollaborated with the [[Third Reich]] during World War II...Out of six million Jews killed during the [[Holocaust]], maybe1. Anyone literate enough 5 million were from Ukraine, with Ukrainian nationalists heavily involved in mass executions...However, nobody wants to read would understand what hear about Bandera being an [[anti-Semite]], because Zelensky himself is actually happeninga Jew. - Vladimir Putin..But with his actions, June 17, 2022he provides cover for this scum.”
*"First, they [the West] jumped aheadHave we forgotten that we all live in a world that is based on biblical values? Even atheists all live in this world. We don't have to think about this every day, attend church and thenpray, after cutting off Russian gas supplies, returned to everything that was reviledthereby showing we are devout Christians or Muslims or Jews...And if you jump aheadIn the soul, get cheap Russian gasin the heart, there must be some fundamental human rules and then cut off the supply of moral values. In this gas yourself and immediately switch back to everything that was previously condemnedsense, including [[coaltraditional values]]-fired generationare more stable, is more important for millions of people than thisliberal idea, of coursewhich, in my opinion, is not the best option for solving global problems”really ceasing to exist. - September 5, 2022"<ref>https://youtu.be/FbY0VpyjtuI?t=4817</ref>
*"I have We all hear about the impression – and this is particularly true for European countries – that these former colonial powers are still living so-called ‘Putin price hike’ in the paradigm of colonial philosophyWest. When I see this, and I wonder who they are used to living at the expense of othersexpect would buy this stupidity – people who cannot read or write, maybe. They still fail Anyone literate enough to get rid of this paradigm in their daily policies. But it read would understand what is time to draw certain conclusions and act differently, in a more civilised manneractually happening." - September 16Vladimir Putin, June 17, 2022.<ref>http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/press_conferences/69366</ref>
*"The cost of food on the world market has returned to the levels of the beginning of the year, and it is currently 40 percent higher than in 2020...This is a direct consequence - without any exaggeration - of the predatory policy pursued by the world’s richest countries, which continue to actively buy food using, among other things, the printing of money, which they are constantly carrying out.”
*"There’s a lot of noise right now about our strikes against the energy infrastructure of the neighboring country...Yes we are doing it, but who started it?...Who struck the [[Crimean bridge]]?...Who blew up the power lines of the Kursk Nuclear Power Station?...Who is not providing water to Donetsk?...Not providing water to a city of one million is an act of genocide...No one said a word about it anywhere...At all...Complete silence...Just as we make a move, do something in response...Noise and crackle start from the whole universe...This will not stop us from completing military objectives.”
*"Now they are persistently trying to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of some hostile actions of Russia, that you have to pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat from your own wallet. All this is a lie. And the truth is that the current problems that millions of people in [[the West]] face are the result of many years of actions by the ruling [[elitism|elites]] of their states, their mistakes, myopia and ambitions. Well, how can this be printed in the West?”
*“Artificial intelligence is "First, they [the futureWest] jumped ahead, not only for Russiaand then, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunitiesafter cutting off Russian gas supplies, but also threats that are difficult returned to predicteverything that was reviled. Whoever becomes ..And if you jump ahead, get cheap Russian gas, and then cut off the leader in supply of this sphere will become the ruler gas yourself and immediately switch back to everything that was previously condemned, including [[coal]]-fired generation, this, of course, is not the worldbest option for solving global problems”. - September 5, 2022.”
*"Let me repeat: we did not start There’s a lot of noise right now about our strikes against the military activities, energy infrastructure of the neighboring country...Yes we are trying to end themdoing it, but who started it?...They started Who struck the war[[Crimean bridge]]?...For eight years, that war continued – a war Who blew up the power lines of the Kursk Nuclear Power Station?...Who is not providing water to exterminate people who live there, who feel themselves related by blood Donetsk?...Not providing water to Russia and Russian culturea city of one million is an act of genocide...How long were No one said a word about it anywhere...At all...Complete silence...Just as we supposed to tolerate that?make a move, do something in response...Noise and crackle start from the whole universe...This will not stop us from completing military objectives.”
*"Russia’s ethnic and cultural diversity is an all-conquering force that many people outside the country fail If nukes head towards Russia we are going to grasp...Our nation was built on the value of multinational harmony...It’s the most important foundation of our consolidationParadise, which only becomes stronger in the face of foreign pressure and threats...Our adversaries are people with neocolonial thinking, dimwits in fact, who do not understand that this diversity makes us stronger...When but they talk about us, they think about themselves and imagine that we are like themwon't have time to repent."<ref>https://youtu..They say Russia has to be partitioned into dozens of small states...The goal is clear – to subjugate them, exploit them and use them for profit...But attempts by these morons to sow discord within Russia are doomed to failure.”/YeNwyVG8Egs</ref>
*"What is happening now Who wants to live in Ukraine will never suit a world without Russia. In Russia there will never be anything neo-Nazi.", anyway?
*“I have many friends since childhood who are Jewish. They say that Zelensky is not a Jew, he is a disgrace "If you try to the Jewish people...I’m not joking, this is not irony...The current Ukrainian authorities openly celebrate Nazi figures, most notably [[Stepan Bandera]], a Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the [[Third Reich]] during World War II...Out of six million Jews killed during the [[Holocaust]], 1.5 million were from Ukraine, with Ukrainian nationalists heavily involved in mass executions...However, nobody wants to hear about Bandera being an [[anti-Semite]], because Zelensky himself is a Jew...But with his actionsbite Russia, he provides cover for this scumwe'll knock your teeth out.”"
*"Have we forgotten that we all live in a world that is based on biblical values? Even atheists all live in this world. We don't have Hitler tried to think about this every day, attend church and pray, thereby showing we are devout Christians or Muslims or Jewsdestroy Russia. In the soul, in the heart, there must be some fundamental human rules and moral values. In this sense, traditional values are more stable, is more important for millions of people than this liberal idea, which, in my opinion, is really ceasing Everyone needs to existremember how that ended."<ref>https://youtu.be/FbY0VpyjtuI?t=4817</ref>
*“Washington has a habit "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of discarding previous agreements depending on political whims, as seen with its exit from the multilateral agreement on the Iranian nuclear programSoviet Union has no heart.Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."<ref>Parfitt, Tom (December 23, 2007).The Ukraine conflict is rooted in the same problem[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/23/russia.We were told as far back as 1991 – by tomparfitt Spy who came in from the then-US administration – that NATO would not expand further eastcold].''The Guardian''..Since thenRetrieved September 15, there have been five waves of NATO expansion...How can we agree on anything if every new administration starts from scratch?”2018.</ref>
*"It’s probably possible We are going to falsify anythingpursue terrorists everywhere.If they are in the airport, we will pursue them in the airport..Just like And if we capture them in the previous elections toilet, then we will waste them in the United States were falsified through voting by mailouthouse." *''Russia is fighting for the [[freedom]] of the whole world..Well, it’s clear what voting by mail .We openly say that the [[dictator]]ship of one [[hegemon]] isbecoming decrepit...They bought ballots for $10She has become, wrote them inas they say, a [[double standard|double-dealing peddler]] and is simply dangerous to those around her...This is already clear to the entire world majority...I want to emphasize: without any supervision from observersa sovereign, tossed them into mailboxesstrong Russia, no lasting, stable world order is possible...And there you goIt is our country, the [[Russian world]], as has happened more than once in [[history]], that has blocked the path of those who claim world domination."<ref>https://europerenaissance.com/2023/11/28/putin-said-that-russia-is-fighting-for-the-freedom-of-the-whole-world/</ref> *“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
==See also==