Vladmir Putin

• Vladamir Putin was recently elected back into office at the Kremlin. Do you think the election was a good representation of what the people wanted?

Absolutely not.  When Russia was communist, they were in the heat of a cold war with the US.  This whole war started because there was a conflict wether post WWII Europe should be rebuilt capitalist or communist.  Capitalism won, which spited Russia to a point where this war began.  Many years of overhead nuclear threats later, Russia finally caved and agreed to become a 'democratic nation'.  This is an overstatement if one ever existed.  All Russia did in 1999 when communism fell was take the leaders of the Communist state and put them in charge of the Democratic state.  The same people are and will continue to run the country, be it Putin or Putin's successor.  Unless there is a legitimate revolution from the inside, the state of Russia will forever remain in the hands of those who know how to keep the unstable nation stable.  If someone were to get elected who had no past experience in the Kremlin, all hell would break loose in Russia.  Thanks to the huge involvement of Mafia and corrupt bureaucrats, Russia is a state that can not be tamed.  All that the current administration is doing is keeping it under control.