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rfnajera

12-19-2007 11:24 AM

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russia, vladimir, putin, time magazine

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12-19-2007 12:51 PM

ColoradoRight

Well, Time has always been in love with Russian murderers. They sucked up to Stalin, loved Gorbchev, why not Putin?

12-19-2007 10:02 PM

Antara

bizarre choice.

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                                        Putin is named Time 'Person of the Year'</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year"><P>
                        NEW YORK - <SPAN id="lw_1198078876_0" class="yshortcuts">Time magazine</SPAN> on Wednesday named <SPAN id="lw_1198078876_1" class="yshortcuts">Russian President Vladimir Putin</SPAN> its 2007 "Person of the Year."                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year">The nod went to the Russian leader because of Putin's "extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability," said <SPAN id="lw_1198078876_2" class="yshortcuts">Richard Stengel</SPAN>, Time's managing editor.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year">But critics say he has moved the country away from Russia's democratic reforms of the 1990s by tightening control of the media, courts and parliament.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year"><P>"He's the new czar of Russia and he's dangerous in the sense that he doesn't care about civil liberties, he doesn't care about free speech," Stengel said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year">Putin would remain Russia's real leader, regardless of his title</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_re_us/time_person_of_year"><P>Previous individual winners have included Bono, <SPAN id="lw_1198078876_6" class="yshortcuts">President George W. Bush</SPAN> and <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_us/storytext/time_person_of_year/25620029/SIG=10junn564/*http://Amazon.com" linkindex="30"><SPAN id="lw_1198078876_7" class="yshortcuts">Amazon.com</SPAN></A> CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C4D7EE97-29EB-4FE2-92A5-65F7B76354FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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