Every day the U.S. media are competing in depicting the actions undertaken by Russia’s Vladimir Putin as ones that derailed, if not ruined, the American democratic election process. In Europe, it’s a commonplace now to admit that the Russian leader either puts his men in charge of foreign nations – like recently in Moldova or Bulgaria, or will do it quite soon – like in Germany or France. The British openly declare that the UK army would be destroyed in several days if attacked by Russian military. The experts in the oil market credit Mr Putin for playing the crucial role in striking a recent OPEC production-cut deal. Forbes proclaims the Russian president ‘world’s most influential person’ for the fourth year in a row. And the list of Putin’s successes looks spectacularly endless.
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A shop assistant arranges T-shirts bearing images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and featuring Soviet regime symbols at a gift shop in Moscow on Jan. 16, 2017.
