Putin hints will return to Kremlin in 2012

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's paramount leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, hinted on Monday he would return to the presidency in 2012 for six more years and said democracy protesters marching without permission deserved to be beaten.

Asked by the Kommersant daily newspaper in an interview whether Russia's 2012 presidential election did not worry him because he had already decided it, Putin replied:
"No, it interests me like...I wanted to say like everyone, but in fact more than everyone else. But I don't want to make a fetish out of it."


Putin ruled as president from 2000 to 2008 before handing the presidency to his chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev, in order to observe a law banning a third consecutive term.

However Putin will be free to run again in 2012 for a newly extended term of six years.



Read more: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Putin_hints_will_return_to_Kremlin_in_2012.html?cid=28135796

[WillParkinson]

1. Mr. Bush will be so happy!

Now he can look into Pootie-Poots eyes again.

[Lightning Count]

7. Maybe Bush will run again in 2012.

Nothing would surprise me anymore.

[proteus_lives]

2. Tsar Putin never left.

[saltpoint]

3. O goody. It will be a true treat to see Putin's smiling

face in the president's role again, as he is such a warm and charming individual.

Warm and charming, I mean, in the way a lamprey eel is warm and charming.

Lampreys are not quite eels and not quite fish in the same way that Putin is not quite human.

[tanyev]

4. That's it! We need Sarah in 2012.

She's the only one that can keep an eye on Putin, you betcha.

[Vehl]

11. lol good one! nt

[cowcommander]

5. Charming guy

;)

[conspirator]

6. He never left. He's the pupet master n/t

[groundloop]

8. If this idea falls through he'd be a great James Bond bad guy.

He's just got that slimy, evil look.

[Strelnikov_]

9. Long live Russia!!

Long live the Czar!!

[LibertyLover]

10. Gosh, I'm shocked - who ever would have thought it possible?

Given Putin's actions since, oh, I don't know, say 2006, this is certainly startling news. :sarcasm:

[maxsolomon]

12. He's a dictator who oppresses his people

and conducts sham elections to give his regime a veneer of democratic legitimacy.

just like Saddam Hussein. when do we invade?

why yes, it is :sarcasm:!