2 hours agoVladimir Putin has only cried once in his life
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)As Russia prepares to elect Vladimir Putin for a third term as president on March 18th, the BBC sheds light on an discovery event that took place at the start of his career in the Kremlin, when he was Russia's acting president, preparing for his first presidency's elections. Russians [...]
As Russia prepares to elect Vladimir Putin for a third term as president on March 18th, the BBC sheds light on an discovery event that took place at the start of his career in the Kremlin, when he was Russia's acting president, preparing for his first presidency's elections.
The Russians rarely see their president cry, although there have been many tragedies during his 18 years in power. That was once at the funeral of Anatolia Sobcak at the start of his rule on February 24, 2000.
Sobcak was one of the people who, along with Gorbachev and Jelcin, helped bring the end of the Soviet Union. He was also the reformer who took over a middle-ranking KGB officer named Vladimir Putin from the dark and gave him his first job in politics.
No one knows what prompted him to make this lucky decision. But today fractions from the old Soviet security facility have taken reins of power in Russia to the extent that it makes a democracy that is hardly worth calling, writes the BBC.
