Word: putin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rock me, sexy PUTIN...
...didn't know what the guy said, but I saw his sole.' GEORGE W. BUSH, alluding to his memorable comment about meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, after an Iraqi journalist hurled a pair of shoes...
Russia needs foreign companies to plug a huge hole in Putin's economic policies. In his first term as President, Putin introduced modern tax and corporation laws. But he failed to spur the development of a business infrastructure that would enable Russia to diversify away from its over-reliance on energy and metals. Now, as the crisis starts to bite, the Kremlin is reacting by increasing its control over broad swathes of the economy. Through the state-controlled banks, it is bailing out selected business executives who are having trouble paying their debts - including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon...
...Indeed, back in 1998, Denisov adds mysteriously, "it was a crisis that helped us move a step ahead." Business, both insist, has not been affected. But press Petrov on prospects for next year and he shifts uneasily in his seat. "We will be making some correction," he finally concedes. Putin himself couldn't have put it better. The question is: Just how much pain will Russians have to endure before the government makes the corrections that are so desperately needed...
...followers for 18 years. Credited with restoring the church in the post-Soviet era, he mended a rift with a rival sect established by Russians who had fled the Soviet Union for the West. In his later years, Alexy was an ardent supporter of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...