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если вас кинули - самое время расправить крылья

ВО ВСёМ ВИНОВАТА КРОВАЯ ГЕБНЯ!!!!

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Great.....  let's give it to Chavez or Abinijad next.   

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Make each day count to improve yourself and those around you

mkgilstrap:

Great.....  let's give it to Chavez or Abinijad next.   

 Mr. Gilstrap!  Please do tell us what Russian president did to piss you off so much.
 

PS And that's Ahmadinejad.

 

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This thread is in sore need of an airhead opinion...

At the very least, he's better looking than most other presidents :)

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when her mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce

412: he said "nyet" to America. And no woman deals well with rejection..

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Good choice.  Bad Picture.

Remember, this is a very far left publication (for a mainstream one), and Putin's main beef (currently) is with US administration in power.  Could easily have been those other guys mkgilstrap suggested, had they had as productive a year.

In other news, democratic candidates sound way more confrontational about Russia's "course".  It would be The Weekly Standard kissing Russia's ass if Dems were in power.

This is just a media marketing ploy anyway.  Or are there prizes?

 

 

 

 

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"Я это понимаю на рациональном уровне, но не могу принять на эмоциональном" --Бизнесмен Борис Березовский

Путин МО-ЛО-ДЕЦ, что бы беззубая оппозиция ни говорила.  Нахлебались россияне либералов-демократов хреновых, достаточно, пусть на Украине свой дурдом экспериментируют, а России пока за газ по рыночным ценам платят :)  Путин - прагматик, все этим сказано.

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412:

mkgilstrap:

Great.....  let's give it to Chavez or Abinijad next.   

 Mr. Gilstrap!  Please do tell us what Russian president did to piss you off so much.
 

PS And that's Ahmadinejad.

Yeah, I also noticed some people intentionally try to misspell names to make some point, as if it is original or something..  A sign of mediocrity overall and just retarded, sorry :)

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Egor:

Could easily have been those other guys mkgilstrap suggested, had they had as productive a year.

 Actually, that's what they said too. Chavez and Ahma-whatever were seriously considered but like you said, they didn't have as "productive a year".
 

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I don't understand what the praise is all about, the picture is very bad, he looks like he is looking through a door peep hole (i think thats right in english, glazok koroche), but he is now in the same list as Hitler and Stalin, so how is this an honor?

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Свободу попугаям!

bobik3000:

I don't understand what the praise is all about, the picture is very bad, he looks like he is looking through a door peep hole (i think thats right in english, glazok koroche), but he is now in the same list as Hitler and Stalin, so how is this an honor?

 

"TIME's Person of the Year is not and never has been an honor. It is not an endorsement. It is not a popularity contest. At its best, it is a clear-eyed recognition of the world as it is and of the most powerful individuals and forces shaping that world—for better or for worse. It is ultimately about leadership—bold, earth-changing leadership. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years. Whether he becomes more like the man for whom his grandfather prepared blinis—who himself was twice TIME's Person of the Year—or like Peter the Great, the historical figure he most admires; whether he proves to be a reformer or an autocrat who takes Russia back to an era of repression—this we will know only over the next decade. At significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize, he has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power. For that reason, Vladimir Putin is TIME's 2007 Person of the Year." (Full article here.)

As for the picture, the one they used on the home page (time.com) is even worse  

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Dasha...can you now find the explanation of People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive?!?  I would really love to see that criteria ;)

 

Let's remember that Time Magazine had Hilter as Man of the Year a long time ago - they nominate people based on power and achievement (good or bad).

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tanya2001:

Dasha...can you now find the explanation of People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive?!? I would really love to see that criteria ;)

Although I'm sure you didn't mean that literally, I got curious enough to google it so here it is: (excerpt taken from here)

 

"We have our favorites. We look at who the readers want in the magazine. There's a team of editors in New York that whittle it down" over a period of about two months. "But there's always an obvious choice. . . . It's the guy of the moment, the guy of the year."

The title was created almost randomly back in 1985 when editors were preparing a story on Mel Gibson. "Someone said, 'Oh my God, he is the sexiest man alive!' And someone said, 'You should use that as a cover line.' "

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Egor,

One of my beefs with Dems in this country - they are far more idiotic in their position towards Russia. Reps, at least are more pragmatic, which makes them more flexible .

Dems with their stupid "democracy" mantra are far more capable of nuking Russia or bankrolling 5th column  

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- Независимость - это когда в 20-й раз наступаешь на одни и те же грабли, а русские уже ни при чем....