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New Year is the expectation of a miracle - Putin

Published: 31 December, 2009, 05:41
Edited: 25 January, 2010, 18:40

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates everybody on the New Year.

“We all await the New Year. We’ve waited because the New Year expectation is associated with the expectation, at a minimum, of changes and changes for the better, if not with the expectation of a miracle.

At the same time, if life consists of sparkling champagne, fireworks and celebrations alone – it would not bring full satisfaction either.

As a rule, life brings satisfaction if it is connected with overcoming certain difficulties and with progress towards success through those difficulties.

So my wish is that those problems should be in the nature of an applied drill.

They should only be a path to success; while our successes should be considerable and grandiose, and should really lead to an improvement in our lives in all areas.

Happy New Year!”

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Troy January 16, 2010, 17:42
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Kihnu, First, what we agree on... your summing up of our current president, yes you are right and take my president,please!! One of the things(and I assure you there are many, not one of which is his race, before you go there) that I cant stand about the guy is that hes a marxist. But Bush is a war criminal????....come on man I know the ruskies dont understand what it is to liberate a country, but get real. Now do you deny that puttie is a stalin loving x- kgb agent. yes or no? answer that question then we can talk.... and just so you know 1. Im not a Pres. Bush apologist either 2. We got plenty of "leaders"(esp. now) that you guys can point and laugh at, drunks or no!3. MY point was really about tyranny or LIBERTY of which camp(or gulag) do you think puttie wants to preside over?...be honest now.... and one last thing...comparing a Texan Pres. to a wanna be Santa Anna is a real Texan, if not American history, fuaxpae(hope thats right) but no biggie we can get past that one.

Kihnu January 14, 2010, 22:21
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Troy, I am one of your "Putin lovers", and I can assure you I am quite real. You seem to fear Putin because he is a genuine Russian patriot and not a commie drunkard that can point your finger at and laugh. Putin is fresh air compared to that demented west Texas nitwit who fancied himself as the second coming of Generalisimo Santa Anna when he attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush is the greatest butcher of human beings in the 21st century, and deserves to be on trial at the Hague for the crimes he committed against the Afghan and Iraqi people.. America's current president is just a south Chicago street "organizer" (AKA hustler) and dribbler of basketballs. Neither of these two pathetic individuals deserve to be in the same room with Vladimir Putin. Slava Vladimir veliki.

Kihnu January 14, 2010, 20:22
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Vladimir Putin is a Russian patriot that Boris Yeltsin never was. Boris was always too drunk to even know where he his plane had landed when he looked out the window. America has always counted on Russian leaders to be drunken incompetents - Vladimir Putin burst that bubble. Slava Putin.