New Year's Eve marks two decades since Vladimir Putin's ascent to power.. | |
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(OP) User ID: 78136663 United States 12/31/2019 05:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Twenty years ago on December 31, Russian President Boris Yeltsin "stole the millennium". Quoting: THE AMERICAN INQUISITOR The ailing, alcoholic and unpopular leader interrupted the New Year's Eve celebrations by resigning and proclaiming his new prime minister as "acting president" before a snap vote in March 2000. [link to www.aljazeera.com (secure)] :nose23l36: SCOTLAND FOREVER America is the Grand Experiment..Let us not Fail.. Listed Number 1 in the Guinness World Record Book of EXTRA LARGE Steel Balls Opinions are like Farts..Only the very best linger on and on Great Men wake up to slay spam tards. Most are content to chase lizards. Therein lies the difference. Live Brave.LIVE FREE. Murphy is my patron Saint. I SIGN MY NEG KARMA |
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(OP) User ID: 78136663 United States 12/31/2019 06:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Somewhat as the US is..Indeed Russia has had problems with renegades.. :nose23l36: SCOTLAND FOREVER America is the Grand Experiment..Let us not Fail.. Listed Number 1 in the Guinness World Record Book of EXTRA LARGE Steel Balls Opinions are like Farts..Only the very best linger on and on Great Men wake up to slay spam tards. Most are content to chase lizards. Therein lies the difference. Live Brave.LIVE FREE. Murphy is my patron Saint. I SIGN MY NEG KARMA |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77999704 Canada 12/31/2019 06:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He had only become Prime Minister earlier in the year 1999. His first action as Prime Minister was to fly out to the Dagestan front line and promise to bring the war to a speedy conclusion. He did that. It seems that the Russian Deep State liked his style so much they foreced Yeltsin to step down. One of the first things to happen in his Presidency was the sinking of the Kursk. He faced the families of the doomed sailors, broke the bad news that they did not have the capability to rescue them, and then asked for their support to rebuild the navy. He broke the power of the Russian oligarchs, defeated al-Qaeda in Chechnya, and put the Russian economy on the road to recovery. The West didn't realize how serious he was till Georgia invaded South Ossetia. If anything happens to Putin, there is a new generation of leaders behind him - Sergei Shoigu, Dimitri Rogozin, Lavrov, even the hero of the Crimean secession, Natalya Poklonskaya, and the alleged spy Anna Chapman. |
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