Putin says he won't be president for life - only until 2024

[gudman]

[QUOTE=laserguided;46563106]Is 85% approval rating as per Levada legit in your eyes?[/QUOTE]

No it isn't. I don't trust any of the polls held in this country, I trust Levada even less - that's people who outright refuse to present their methodology and even exact questions they ask.

And besides, it's not even the point. The trust/approval ratings mean very little in an environment that has been purposefully cleared from any dissenting positions reaching wide audience. Imagine Fox News or any regional equivalent of your choice, and now imagine that it's all you have available. Everything else is either obscure as shit or entertainment-centered. Now imagine that there's a figure that sometimes comes out and says something reasonable when compared to loads of bullshit. No shit people who don't care all that much (but are still have brains) will support this figure.

And that's exactly how Putin appears on TV and radio. He's a voice of reason in the sea of idiocy. He's not a glorious king or dear leader or anything of that sort, the image created by the media for him is different.

[Memobot]

The PM and President will swap in 2024 then. Like they do whenever they feel like it.

[GameWalrus]

Shame Russia has no twenty second amendment or something similar like us in America.

[smurfy]

[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;46564030]Shame Russia has no twenty second amendment or something similar like us in America.[/QUOTE]

You're only allowed to be president twice consecutively, but Putin just took a term out and came back in 2012. Then they extended presidential terms to six years.

[LiquidNazgul]

Come 2024, the new Russian president rules for only three months before having a nervous breakdown for no apparent reason. He immediately resigns, citing health reasons, and requests Putin take the Presidency. Putin "reluctantly" accepts since no other candidates show up for some mysterious reason.

Putin then throws off his suit to reveal a tsar's outfit. Looking down on the masses, he says straight into the camera,

"I am Vladimir I of the Pootin dynasty."

[gudman]

[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;46564184]Come 2024, the new Russian president rules for only three months before having a nervous breakdown for no apparent reason. He immediately resigns, citing health reasons, and requests Putin take the Presidency. Putin "reluctantly" accepts since no other candidates show up for some mysterious reason.

Putin then throws off his suit to reveal a tsar's outfit. Looking down on the masses, he says straight into the camera,

"I am Vladimir I of the Pootin dynasty."[/QUOTE]

And immediately drops dead on the spot and the son he was hiding all along is crowned then and there.

All hail Vasily I Pootin.

[Deng]

[QUOTE=gudman;46564276]And immediately drops dead on the spot and the son he was hiding all along is crowned then and there.

All hail Vasily I Pootin.[/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWY-9UihgYg[/media]

[Kefirman]

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;46562811]Do they really, though?[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately they do, especially considering the rise of patriotic sentiments among population due to annexation of Crimea. He is more popular then ever, bar maybe 2004.

[zukriuchen]

[QUOTE=Cold;46562991]
But saying that his political system is flawed is not true.[/QUOTE]

this just in putin is literally the perfect leader