Charles Lane: Putin’s warped reality
Russia's Vladimir Putin professed sympathetic understanding for the protesters in Kyiv's Maidan Square and their unhappiness with corruption and poverty, oblivious to the contradiction with his own repression of Russians who dare to protest his corrupt rule.
Intelligence officers live by a time-honored credo: When in doubt, admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusations. It was in that spirit that Vladimir Putin, the quondam KGB man who rules Russia, addressed his nation and the world Tuesday on the annexation of Crimea.
