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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Putin’s public image in Russia has drastically deteriorated since his
heyday, when he took up the presidency following his predecessor Boris
Yeltsin’s surprise resignation.
Approval ratings were as high as 83 per cent in 2002, shortly after his
handling of the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, which saw at least 129
hostages and 39 armed Chechens die when a group of between 40 and 50 seized
the Dubrovka Theatre.
However, by December 2011, Mr Putin’s approval rating as prime minister had
sunk to a low of 51 per cent. That month also saw the largest ever protests
since the fall of the USSR, when as many as 50,000 anti-government
demonstrators gathered to denounce the parliamentary elections as being
rigged and demand a new election be held.
Mr Putin’s reign has been noted for the rise to power of Russia’s wealthy
oligarchs, many of them former-KGB like the president-elect himself.
Recently, the prime minister has been criticised for the incarceration of
two members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk band. Maria Alyokhina and
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who have refuted claims that they belong to Pussy
Riot, have been charged with hooliganism.
Mr Putin’s opposition have declared that they will hold rallies in early May
to protest his inauguration.
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