For The Third Time
For the third time,
For a third term;
And, Vladimir Putin was sworn in as the Russian President.
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The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.
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Putin's Witch Hunt Hooligan Crimes
under leader Vladimir Putin
criminal thief must be in jail
men like Mikhail Khodorkovsky
who take an anti-party stand
Putin's Stalinized words
ring dictatorship hollow
as everyone who now lives
in Putin's spun cage knows
thieves in our resurrected
Russia don't exclusively
belong in a jail sentenced
they belong in government
thieves strut in and around
their power base Kremlin
every official high and low
steals steals steals we know?
reaping sly political party line
means not ending up in prison
golden eggs government laid
means choice owning a chunk
of Cyprus Nice or London town
purchase power stems ultimately
from good political calculations
modern 'Gulag' is said to mean
the entire Soviet repressive system
the set of procedures that prisoners
once called the state 'meat-grinder'
the arrests the KGB interrogations?
the transport in unheated cattle cars
forced labor destruction of families
the years spent if survived in exile
the early political unnecessary deaths
beware beware beware Vladimir
with his witch hunt hooliganism
charges Putin's 'regime routinely
jails dissident journalists activists'
Vladimir Putin has his victims
display sit in glass walled cages
any brave citizens who V. Putin
deems dissidents who speak seek
to 'undermine Russian democracy'
Putin's refusal to tolerate dissents
in his new six-year term as president
means any all criticism of V. Putin?
Putin's Stalinized hooliganism is
actually a maximum seven years
Pussy Riot sentence 2 years lenient
Pussy Riot achieved martyr status!
Putin faces dilemma of the tyrant
played in blood throughout the ages
dilemma now foreign policy playing
in Syria in revolt dark bloody form
principle politic relaxation risks
being taken as a sign of weakness
punishment hard too heavy-handed
could crime embolden opponents?
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The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
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Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
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You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
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To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
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The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
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I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.
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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
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Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
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Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
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Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
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Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
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Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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