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Explain me, please, what is on this picture?

Apparently Putin may have autism, regarding some new studies made on him.

Apparently Putin may have autism, regarding some new studies made on him.

March 2000: I arrived in St.Petersburg. A Russian friend (a psychologist) since 1983 came for our usual visit.  My first question was, "Lena what do you think about your new president?"  She laughed and retorted, "Volodya!  I went to school with him!"  She began to describe Putin as a quiet youngster, poor, fond of martial arts, who stood up for kids being bullied on the playgrounds. She remembered him as a patriotic youth who applied for the KGB prematurely after graduating secondary school (they sent him away and told him to get an education).  He went to law school, later reapplied and was accepted.  I must have grimaced at this, because Lena said,  "Sharon in those days we all admired the KGB and believed that those who worked there were patriots and were keeping the country safe. We thought it was natural for Volodya to choose this career.  My next question was,  "What do you think he will do with Yeltsin's criminals in the Kremlin?"   Putting on her psychologist hat,  she pondered and replied,  "If left to his normal behaviors, he will watch them for a while to be sure what is going on, then he will throw up some flares to let them know that he is watching. If they don't respond, he will address them personally, then if the behaviors don't change–– some will be in prison in a couple of  years."  I congratulated her via email when her predictions began to show up in real time.  

So why do our leaders and media demean and demonize Putin and Russia???  

Like Lady MacBeth, do they protest too much?  

Psychologists tell us that people (and countries?)  project off on others what they don't want to face in themselves.  Others carry our "shadow"when we refuse to own it.  We confer on others the very traits that we are horrified to acknowledge in ourselves.

Could this be why we constantly find fault with Putin and Russia?
Could it be that we project on to Putin the sins of ourselves and our leaders?
Could it be that we condemn Russia's corruption, acting like the corruption within our corporate world doesn't exist?
Could it be that we condemn their human rights and LGBT issues, not facing the fact that we haven't solved our own?
Could it be that we accuse Russia of "reconstituting the USSR"––because of what we do to remain the world's  "hegemon"?
Could it be that we project nationalist behaviors on Russia, because that is what we have become and we don't want to face it?
Could it be that we project warmongering off on Russia, because of what we have done over the past several administrations?

Pick your poison between the countries
Both are still corrupt just in different ways from the other although it applies to a lot of places.

I think both sides are ruled by oligarchs lol. Maybe it's one side pushing for war now but it's the same kind of people ruling everywhere.

I've stood by silently watching the demonization of Putin grow since it began in the early 2000s –– I pondered on computer my thoughts and concerns, hoping eventually to include them in a book (which was published in 2011). The book explains my observations more thoroughly than this article. Like others who have had direct experience with this little known man, I've tried to no avail to avoid being labeled a "Putin apologist".  If one is even neutral about him, they are considered "soft on Putin" by pundits, news hounds and average citizens who get their news from CNN, Fox and MSNBC.

I don't pretend to be an expert, just a program developer in the USSR and Russia for the past 30 years.  But during this time, I've have had far more direct, on-ground contact with Russians of all stripes across 11 time zones than any of the Western reporters or for that matter any of Washington's officials.

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Four months later Putin called a meeting with the oligarchs and gave them his deal:  They could keep their  illegally-gained wealth-producing Soviet enterprises and they would not be nationalized ….  IF taxes were paid on their revenues and if they personally stayed out of politics. This was the first of Putin's "elegant solutions" to the near impossible challenges facing the new Russia.  But the deal also put Putin in crosshairs with US media and officials who then began to champion the oligarchs, particularly Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The latter became highly political, didn't pay taxes, and prior to being apprehended and jailed was in the process of selling a major portion of Russia's largest private oil company, Yukos Oil, to Exxon Mobil. Unfortunately, to U.S. media and governing structures, Khodorkovsky became a martyr (and remains so up to today).

I believe the US elites have never forgiven Putin for nixing at the last minute the Yukos deal. Putting Russian interests above those of US imperial interests was and remains unforgivable. The US will now try to lure him into a military conflict over Ukraine.

Explain me, please, what is on this picture?

The Russian march has been going on for many decades now, and it is not possible to ban it. Most of the people who participate in that are activists of the Orthodox church, and only a minority are neo-Nazis. That said, for the past several years, the Russian March has been very peaceful, with no reports of attacks against racial minorities.

If only the Russian government did as much to reduce their numbers as it does to reduce the numbers of gay people

It is true that Russia is home to tens of thousands of neo-Nazis. But this problem is prevailing there since the breakup of the USSR, which occurred in 1991. But the government is doing all that it can, to reduce these numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3C2IXGFsAo

Is this video visible for US customers of Youtube?

Sorry to disappoint you, but in Russia "there are now an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 neo-Nazis, half of the world's total."

Oh, still, no idea, who are this guys with ethnic hate slogans?