The following Two year old article explains the facts about Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin who is the current dictator of Russia. Putin is not a President as he claims but he is an active and dangerous dictator along the lines of Stalin and Hitler. He is currently attacking the Ukrain with the full intent of annexing it back to Russia. He scorns the United Nations International treaty forbidding one country from attacking another. He is intent on rebuilding the old Soviet Empire which lasted until 1991 when, on that date, the people of the Ukrainian voted to regain their independence and leave the suffocating influence of the old Soviet Union.      N,J.R .

By Hanna Kozlowska

Investigative reporter

Published December 16, 2016This article is more than 2 years old.

Many key figures—including president Barack Obama, members of the Electoral College, and senate majority leader Mitch McConnell—have voiced concerns about Russia’s hacking campaign during the US election and its ties to the incoming administration. But leave it to Arizona senator and longtime Kremlin critic John McCain to bluntly explain why the United States should be worried.

“Vladimir Putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer and a KGB agent,” McCain said on CBS’s “Face of the Nation” on Dec. 11. Speaking two days later about Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick for secretary of state, who received the Russian “Order of Friendship” in 2013, McCain said in a radio interview: ”Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.”

Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000, has created a regime under which his opponents are murdered; political prisoners are sent to Siberia for decades behind bars; minority rights are suppressed; opposition is quashed; foreign territory is forcefully annexed; and Syria’s bloodthirsty president, Bashar Assad, enjoys direct military support for his massacres.

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of examples of Putin’s abusive rule in Russia.

Murdering enemies.  

Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000, has created a regime under which his opponents are murdered; political prisoners are sent to Siberia for decades behind bars; minority rights are suppressed; opposition is quashed; foreign territory is forcefully annexed; and Syria’s bloodthirsty president, Bashar Assad, enjoys direct military support for his massacres.

Murdering enemies

The list of people suspected murdered on orders from the Russian leader or people close to him is long. It includes several of Putin’s early critics among them liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and exiled former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. A UK government report showed that Litvinenko’s death—he was poisoned using polonium in London—which was “probably” approved by Putin. 

Click on the names to find the articles pertaining to these victims.

The list of people suspected murdered on orders from the Russian leader or people close to