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2020-03-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin has signed a law on constitutional changes that could keep him in power for another 16 years

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Posted by Fred 2020-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Why doesn't he simply name himself Tsar and have done with it?

Posted by Cesare 2020-03-15 09:11|| 2020-03-15 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Staying in office indefinately is also the goal of many our own uniparty members. Could there be a correlation ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-15 09:14|| 2020-03-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 ... because Tsar Putin sounds too much like Rasputin?

Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 09:14|| 2020-03-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Vlad is better scrubbed and groomed than the Mad Monk, but equally tough to put down

Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 09:15|| 2020-03-15 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Basically, until he's 83 years old.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-03-15 10:31|| 2020-03-15 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Rasputin?
Rats! Putin

Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 11:01|| 2020-03-15 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 We never hear a word about who might take his place. I think the devil we know is acceptable.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-15 17:47|| 2020-03-15 17:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Putin wants to preside over the demographic collapse of Russia, I guess.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-15 19:50|| 2020-03-15 19:50|| Front Page Top

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