Vladimir Putin

Countries and governments around the world were very quick to respond with condemnation of the actions of the bombing suspects and offer their sympathy to the victims and their families. In a rare show of solidarity toward the USA, Russian President Vladimir Putin not only expressed his condolences to President Obama but he also offered Russian support into the investigation of the bombings. This response from Russia was…

This year, 2016, can be marked as a year when Burger King in Russia jumps on every single opportunity to be in media, without thinking what content it produces and what consequences it can face after. Facing the fact of Russian persistence and duality, we can assume it can be the reason Russian People like Donald Trump. What can be viewed as unethical and offensive in his behaviour by Americans, viewed as a strength of personality by Russians. When he was elected as the next President of the…

Political Russia is a young nation with a current political system that is less than 25 years old. It is the successor state to the USSR, a former world superpower. It is important to understand the history of past governments. They influence the current political system. Russia’s size and composition (83 federal ‘states’) make it a difficult country to govern which results in low scores on established and peer-reviewed indices for democracy and rule of law. However, Russia is still a world…

1999, he came into office two days after a radical group of Chechens started an attack on the Dagestan. They wished to establish the “Independent Islamic State of Dagestan”. They did so to hopefully cause an Islamic Anti-Russian uprising. This caused Putin to respond after five days of waiting. The Russian Bomber Jets arrived in Chechnya, which symbolized what was going to come. The result was that tens of thousands of Chechens died, who were mostly Chechen citizens. The Russians did not come…

Putin did not participate in presidential elections in 2008 because he had already been in the office for two terms by that moment (Putin-Medvedev alternation) However, it would be a huge overstatement to say that Russia is a democracy1. It implies that using the same methods and models that are used for the democracies…

Ambition is something everyone has. Your ambitions strives and makes you achieve your goals. However, too much ambition can corrupt and destroy a person. Ambition is like a drug, small amounts can make you feel great, but too much can kill you. Shakespeare clearly portrays the negative effects of too much ambition throughout his play The Tragedy of Macbeth. He uses the main character, Macbeth, to show us how excessive amounts of ambition can lead someone to their doom. In the beginning of…

Scooby-Doo plush was the best thing I could ask for. One day, when I was 12-years-old, at a carnival, my uncle Ray, helped me win a game and we won that plush as the prize. My plush looks like Scooby, from the most recognized show Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. He is a brown dog, with two black spots, floppy ears, two crossed-eyes with black eyebrows, a cute black nose, and no scratches. Scooby is sitting on his hind legs, with his left front paw up like you are going to shake his paw and the…

fell and the new Russian government was established hostility began to arise again. Currently the relationship between America’s Barrack Obama and Russia’s Vladimir Putin can be described as just as bad as relations were during the darkest times of the Cold War. However, this is not an essay over President Barrack Obama and President Vladimir Putin. Rather, this…

Both the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Vladimir Putin use fear and propaganda to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegory meant to represent the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The book is about animals who take over their farm in order to run it themselves. They eventually fall under the leadership of a pig named Napoleon, who often deceives the animals in order to maintain power. The book highlights the ignorance of the animals who end up just as they were in the beginning…

After the death of Vladimir Lenin in the 1924, Joseph Stalin rose to power as the dictator of the Soviet Union and held power until his death in 1953. Through his policy, known as Stalinism, he industrialized and modernized Russia, boosting its economy to catch up with the other western powers. However, millions died during his dictatorship, including his own people through his creation of the first man-made famine ever and through his labor camps, known as Gulags (Joseph). One major aspect of…