TheDudeOfGaming

Yup. He already sent millions of people to their deaths in gulags, and purged an incredible number of his perceived political adversaries as well as creating and maintaining a cult of personality.

Care to rephrase your post?

Sochi is 600 miles away from Volgograd to be exact. Analysts are currently saying that there's very little to no chance that Sochi will see any attacks despite the close proximity to the North Caucasus.

Also the main post is updated with news of a suspect behind the attacks.

I think it's somewhat funny. Sue me.

There are many outspoken Putin critics in Russia. It's not like you speak out against Putin and the next thing you know you're on a train to a Siberian work camp.

You still haven't given me examples of the "oppression" but okay, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Don't see what Putin's domestic policies have to do with his foreign policies. In regards to Russia's interests in foreign policy, he has done nothing but protect them. You seem to be hung up on his domestic policy. Don't see what it has to do with you, since I assume you never even resided in Russia.

He's prolonged his stay in office. How is he restricting the freedoms and harming citizens apart from that? He's not the one who has authorized spying on the citizens of his own country.

Basically, to summarize your opinion. "Putin is bad because the news told me so". The protests organized against Putin numbered several tens of thousands. Russia is a country that numbers 150.000.000 people when the protests are in the several hundreds of thousands, come back to me.

"To learn who rules over you, simply learn who you are not allowed to criticize."

-Voltaire

Putin doesn't give a fuck about the west's opinion on most things, neither do Russians. Sorry, guess there's still a small part of the world that doesn't go along with whatever you say. And as long as Putin does that, he's great in my book.

And YOU'RE the motherfuckers who are using drones that end up killing hundreds of civilians... oups, collateral damage. Not to mention all the spying. And you've started more wars than Russia ever did. And you know what, all of that is fine, if you weren't so hypocritical about it.

As for the second part, tell me you're fucking kidding me right now.

Yeah okay so missed that part. Am officially wrong, and an asshole. I apologize. Fuck those guys.

Hm, after thinking about it I realized that they're equally as bad as anonymous and other hacktivists. And that the efforts of both groups are as equally wasted. So, perhaps they aren't really better than hacktivists, but if no money or information is being stolen. Then I'd say it's pretty harmless for those affected. So long as it doesn't last too long, which it won't... hopefully.

Chinese. We'll all be needing it in the future. From a pure "how much money can I make if I learn <insert language here>" perspective, Chinese is the way to go I think. It is extremely difficult I'd imagine, but no more difficult than Japanese.

Right? It's a common misconception. Can't say I blame those deceived, we do act civilized most of the time. But deep down... well, we're still animals deep down.

And Russia has free hands to do whatever it wants right now. Kind of like the US after 9/11.