Can a positive assessment of the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin please both his opponents and his supporters?? The obvious answer is no, is not it? But, life in the face of the daughters of officers taught us, that not everything is so simple.
20 years ago in August 1999 years on the political horizon of Russia there was a new prime minister - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
The next year, the prime minister became president, across 8 years as prime minister, and in another 4 President again.
What Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin managed to do during this time?
Vladimir Putin's government can be proud of many victories both inside and outside the country.
Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, the country again entered the political arena as a country deciding other people's affairs.
The economic situation in the country has improved exponentially.
The fight against terrorism in the country was incredibly successful.
Russian influence spreads to Latin America (Venezuela), Africa (Zimbabwe, Egypt), Near East (Syria, Iran) and so on.
Russia snaps Georgia on the nose in 2008 year, captured Crimea in 2014.
Thanks to these achievements, Putin is very popular among the people., mindful of poverty, the hopelessness and decline of the 90s.
However, reasons for love must also be sought in Russia's foreign policy position. Putin regularly wins geopolitical games against the West, using the Baltic countries as a chessboard, Caspian region and Central Asia.
Putin defends Russia's state interests, despite all the problems, like new: enlargement of NATO and the EU, economic situation, and old: climate, vast territories, requiring protection from terrorists, opposition opposition and nationalism.
Vladimir Putin can be compared with Mikhail the First - the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, who put things in order after the "Time of Troubles" or with Lenin, who began the restoration of the state, destroyed by the First World War and the Civil War. Then, both rulers were faced with the task of not only stabilizing the country, but also preventing foreign invasion.
Like its predecessors, The President of Russia was able to stop the collapse of the country and protect the nation. The President has excelled on many fronts: except for economic recovery, Putin managed to restore the army, as well as suspend Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO, Moldova and Georgia.
Everything is subject to Putin, and therefore all the failures and blunders are attributed to him, and no one else. And to some extent it is.
Major Russian problems, faced by almost every ruler, Is an undeveloped economy, lagging technology and heavy state apparatus. Under such conditions, a strong hand is needed for the development of the country., practically dictatorship, in which you can accumulate resources and bridge the gap with the West, how did Peter the First and Stalin.
The same Stalin began collectivization not because, what was the dictator, but because, that the only resource in impoverished Russia was people.
Putin prefers another, softer way, or, may be, we live in times, not suitable for tough measures.
TO 2008 year, accumulating prestige on the world stage and enough money, Putin could have done a radical restructuring, it was only necessary to lead a tougher, dictatorial politics at home. As history shows, only in this way can you achieve changes for the better.
It is now fashionable to talk about Russia's successes in Syria, Venezuela and Africa, but Russia lost the real source of geopolitical influence. It's about the loss of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and declining influence in Central Asia.
Drawing the line, I want to note, that the twenty years of Vladimir Putin's rule on the one hand is illuminated by great achievements, on the other hand is clouded by fundamental problems, rooted in the historical cycles of the Russian state, as well as the mistakes of his government.
And how all of the above may please both Putin's opponents and his supporters? At first glance it seems impossible., but we have a piano in the bushes - the same "officer's daughter".
This article is not the original, and the translation of the work, found on the website of the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, where do they think, what:
Crimea annexed
Putin is a bloody tyrant
Russia fsyo
Assad must leave and so on.
The author: Emil Avdiliani - Lecturer of History at Tbilisi State University and Ilya State University. Author of articles on the situation in the military and political sphere in the post-Soviet space.
This says what?
Putin's supporters can rejoice, that the other side still recognized the merits of the President of Russia, albeit not to the end, and still put a fly in the ointment in honey.
Putin's opponents received a new training manual, showing, how to act correctly in the modern Russian pro-presidential media space:
1.Praise
2.Find a joint
3.Humiliate the merit
4.Send to retire, as a man, due to age, who can no longer rule such a large country.
Ending, I want to quote our President:
“It is equally honorable to be our enemies and friends”.
because – do not quarrel, gentlemen!
