( October 01, 2012,
London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Vladimir Putin was elected to serve as Russia’s
president for another six years. To his supporters, such as those we
encountered celebrating at an election night government rally in Moscow, Putin
is a hero, the strong man who brought order to Russia after the chaos of the
Yeltsin years.
They love his carefully
cultivated image: the horse-riding, judo black-belted, stand-for-no-nonsense
action man who has taken the country back to its rightful place on the world’s
stage.
But elsewhere in Moscow
that night, under the watchful eye of state security and police,Putin’s political
opponents gathered to express their disapproval.
Disappointed by the
result after enjoying a surprising late surge in the anti-Putin camp in the weeks before the
poll, many of them said that his years at the top of Russian politics had seen
the country’s reputation become synonymous with cronyism and corruption, and
that with Putin at the helm inner cliques have been allowed to run Russia for
their own benefit and personal gain.
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