Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan is often thought of as a symbol of conservative multiculturalism, something distinct from the radical forced acculturation which has caused social tensions in Europe and the United States.
In the Kazan Kremlin (citadel), the Qolşärif Mosque stands within close proximity to the Annunciation Orthodox Cathedral as well as the Kazan Kreml’ House church.  This is often seen as a symbol representing peace between Islam and Christianity.

Vladimir Putin has still not declared whether he intends to run in next year’s Russian Presidential election, but according to a recent poll by Russia’s Levada Centre, 64% of Russians want Putin to be President for another term. If Putin runs and wins in the 2018 election, he will remain in office until 2024, the same year Trump will leave office in the US should he seek and win another term in 2020.
Thus far, the only mainstream Russian politician who has officially declared his candidacy is LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia) founder Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

While many in the US are upset over the Donald Trump’s partially disclosed tax returns, Russia has published the annual earnings and assets of top Government, Kremlin and Duma officials.
Here are the figures for some Russia’s most famous politicians: 
Vladimir Putin earned 8.858 million rubles ($157,712) in 2016. Among the list of Putin’s more unique assets include two Soviet Volga cars and a Lada Niva that look something like this…

Hillary Clinton infamously called Trump supporters a ‘basket of deplorables’. Well the deplorables are jumping out of the basket. Some important, well-known Trump supporters and well-wishers from America and beyond are expressing their anger, disappointment and disgust with Trump’s newly unveiled neo-con tendencies.
1. Vladimir Putin 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given an interview with Channel Mir-TV where he’s expressed his own dissatisfaction with Donald Trump’s foreign policy about-face.
Putin stated,

“It is possible to say that (Russia’s) level of trust (in the US) at the working level, especially at the military level, hasn’t become better; it has, in fact, eroded”.

The doctrine or perhaps better stated, the broad idea of ‘peace through strength’ has been fiercely debated throughout the modern era.
In contemporary geo-politics, the phrase has been most associated with the Barry Goldwater brand of Cold War American Republicanism.
But today, it is in Russia where many in opposition as well as the government are coming to learn the virtues of this idea, when properly applied.

While ignorant commentators claim that Russia isn’t a democracy, Russia’s political landscape is changing due to – surprise, surprise – the democratic will of the Russian people.

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