Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon
The Russian president is positioning himself as the world's leading defender of traditional values.
By Brian Whitmore
December 20, 2013
Vladimir Putin is calling on the conservatives of the world to unite—behind him.
The Kremlin leader's full-throated defense of Russia's "traditional values" and his derision of the West's "genderless and infertile" liberalism in his annual state-of-the-nation address last week was just the latest example of Putin attempting to place himself at the vanguard of a new "Conservative International."
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/
December 20, 2013
This was immediately after Donald Trump's private jet travel to Moscow, Russia on November 8, 2013.
December 20, 2013
This was immediately before Ukraine war February 20, 2014.
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