Time magazine has chosen Putin its "Person of the Year"

[1XMarksSpot]

If Time didn't name Putin "Person of the Year", I would've.

[jimbim909]

I applaud his answer @ 05:40 eventhough I don't speak russian

[SmokiSounds]

Don't bullshit me.

If you don't know what's up, don't even type. Putin protects the best social and military interests of Russia, and if you don't see that just...chill. Chillin in Michigan.

Peace

[WHEREtheFUNK]

PUTIN is a KGB Thug. He is the head of one of the most corrupt nations on earth. right behind the US

[polygamous1]

way behind the usa in corruption just like the usa spends more money on defence that all other 10 nations behind the usa so is usa coruption who runs quantanamo? Abu Graib secret CIA prisons the usa colaboration with israel to sink the US LIBERTY in international waters kill all survivors acuse egypt attack n take over the middle east this is REAL with documented evidence eye witnesses acounts a liberty survivors association in the usa 34 us sailors died 180 injured usa the most currupt nation

[WHEREtheFUNK]

Thats what I said...are there any more redundancies from you or did you get it all off your chest?

[RPK74m]

Putin is a KGB agent communist stalinist thug. He wants to destroy the US and the West. He is not to be trusted.

[ChishioHanabi]

I totally agree with what he's saying about the uniqueness thing. I mean, we have rights, which is nice, but we're lacking a whole lot of morals and important crap like that. (And in case you didn't catch that, I am American.)

[aaaustria]

putin is a very popular person in cyprus!

[xXAidenxGoesxrawRxX]

Приветствуйте великую мать Россия, гордая сильный и бесплатный

[azevben]

fuck u usa+nazi. long live putin from indonesian

[petropoulioti]

GREEK PEOPLE SUPPORT P U T I N all the way.

Good Luck with your changes make Russia strong again.

400 years Ottoman occupation and the Russian nation with theuir navy helped us to get rid of the Turks!

I hope Greece will work close with Ruusia in all Business aspects but also in Defense in Balkans. We allready purchased a great number of weapons from Russia in a very good price.

R U S S I A  ELLADA SERBIA

O R T H O D O X I A

[tomterahedrob]

good price?how much for ak-47?

[paranoik1980]

100$

[123Kosta]

Stupid american monkeys the whole world hate you!!!! greetings from germany

[sallee5]

FSB+KGB = AL QAEDA The world will know the truth real soon...

[Arathegreat007]

Putin is a real man. President Putin should be an example for all the future of Russia's presidents. :)

[Antonkvit]

what the hell are you talking about? Putin is Orthodox Christian.. and please, get your grammar right.. wtf does sicne 10 year mean?

[Liquidzer0]

Over 200 murdered Russian journalist over the last ten years, wow. Of course Russians love Putin--they have something other than "butter" on store shelves for a change and he's taken full advantage of that. He IS a dictator.

[paradiso2k]

'Wow' is the key word here, you stupid fuck! You are so obsessed, just stop typing "Russia" every day of your miserable life. You ARE a moron.

[deniss2000]

Do you know, how many bankers, goverment officials and businessmen have been gunned down since the introduction of gangster capitalism in Russia? Tens of thousands at least. Journalists are the part of society. They were prostituting themselves for money and were helping different groups. No wonder some of them were killed. That is Russia.

[da0217]

Weak. Journalists died in Russia before Putin. Stop throwing standard one lines given to you by others.

[lakadirsk]

Screw your so-called freedoms, you're all in debt and living on credit cards, drawning in debt, work 24/7 and have the guts to come here and argue about things you don't know about. Russia will lead the world!

[lakadirsk]

My fellow Slavs please do not try to argue with these ignorant westerners, they are brainwashed and have no clue what's going on: for example, they mix USSR and Russia, think that Stalin was Russian, think that Russia is still Communist (they don't even know what Communism means?), have no clue what Putin is all about. In other words, they have no clue about the world, but they have AN OPINION on everything.

[sallee5]

Putin is a great guy until you disagree with him, then you are found dead. He is the head of the Russian Mafia, you can keep him.

[paradiso2k]

I disagree with many things and say it out loud, you ignorant bitch! As well as many of my fellow-Russians. But, oh miracle, I am still alive! :) Another thing is when US spends some dough to finance the traitors, so they can try to destablilize things. Then, of course, you wind up dead, as it should be! :))

[sallee5]

Bush is going to shove a nuke up Putin's ass real soon...

[paradiso2k]

Look at you! 43 and still an idiot. Hate, kill, nuke are all the words you live by, huh? Opinions are like assholes - everyone has one. "A nuke up Putin's ass"? I would love to meet you and kick you in your little faggot balls as hard as I can... and then more... and more. Until all this shit and hatred comes out of you.

[bngfng]

You do realise Russia is stronger then USA you american fagg monkey lover.

USA has more money thats all, not more war power, and one on one a russian soldier will rape the american soldier like a monkey.

[Antonkvit]

Lol, Thats right, hes head of das Mafia, hes our Czar actually! Were gonna invade your country and make it into a blood KGB GULAG evil Perestroyka Sputnik Vodka land.. Beware..

[cageybee777]

nepugay zasrantsev :) a to ot kruchka uplivut

[cjcookie]

putin is reinstating the USSR -- at least in a totalitarian sense.

[kommie21]

Putin is so wise!

and for the russian people he is like a hero.

[Godfaada]

Well done Mr Putin.

[SovaSerbia]

ZIVELA RUSIJA!ZIVEO PUTIN!Pozdrav iz SRBIJE!

[VictorWasechkin]

Russia - the best!!!

[ah75902]

Who does blackmail Europe via energy?

Who does supply nuclear material to the Iran and North Korea?

Who does murder journalists and dissidents?

[cortezawwris]

Nuclear material for peaceful power plants in Iran. Which has never done anything or declare war like united states. Gee where have you been have not seen headlines around world "'Putin is right about Iran" Dissidents who supported terroist, who stole and robed money from Russian people and hide in U.K

[bittemeinrammstein]

russia is the best

[380800]

PUTIN RULZ!!!!!!!!!!

[Fatape456]

Comunist

[bittemeinrammstein]

stupid dumbass faggot!

[cobyswesey]

Putin is the Anti-Christ and needs to be sniped in the head!!

[sallee5]

Putin is a terrorist that sells nukes and weapons to Muslim Jihadists

[bittemeinrammstein]

umm... i seem to recall the US providing weaponsry to oh lets see... afghanistan, iraq, egypt, israel... hmm... russia the terrorist i think not

[sallee5]

The center of global terrorism is not in Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan. It is coming from the Kremlin". - A. Litvinenko

[cortezawwris]

Funny you quoted that many times coming from man who stole money, supported terrorism from the U.K was spy for the British.

[Johnishka]

Who is Litvinenko?

[wishmaster82]

hahaha...well who suported Bin Laden...the US...who suported Saddam Hussein...the US did...

[sallee5]

They played on sides? DUH

[wishmaster82]

the US supported Bin Laden with money and weapons in the war of Afganistan...

[sallee5]

And he then went to the Russians after the first Iraq war. Putin is selling nukes to Iran and they have ties to al qaeda, this is not brain surgery to see what is going on here.

[wishmaster82]

you are so ignorant...Putin is not selling nukes to anybody...what is your problem...can't say anything different...putin is selling nukes...putin is selling nukes...hahahaha...

[wishmaster82]

if you din't knew we had our own problem with chechnia...and bin laden suports them...so if Putin is selling nukes to everybody then we are fucked...lol...

[sallee5]

Chechnya? That is another smoke screen and lie. What about the building that Putin ordered to be blown up in Moscow so he could blame the Chechens? The KGB got caught bringing in the explosives. lol

[wishmaster82]

Don't you dare to talk about chechnia like it's a lie...people died there for real...the comflict is for real...get informed before saying such things

KGB don't exist anymore...now it's FSB...and yes they blow up many buildings...who say that they don't make mistakes and stupid things???

[sallee5]

The Russians slaughtered the thousands of Chechen people. Where is the outrage? FSB=KGB, you can change the name all you want. THEY STILL ARE THE SAME TERRORISTS. The KGB wanted to blow up the Russian people in that Moscow building and use that as an excuse to invade Chechnya. FALSE FLAG........

[wishmaster82]

you realy don't know nothing,do you???do you know why chechnia started the conflict???

[hatocomrade]

sallee5 you surprise me, you are a wonderfully ignorant person. Please study and know Russian politics not watching CNN and thinking you know,you have the highest case of Ignorance I have seen today.

[sallee5]

The world will know the truth real soon...

[Tchapaevreloaded]

i agree

[kanavouri]

Putin is far form the others the best ever president in the world.

[eldor07]

PUTIN is my IDOL !! THE BEST PRESIDENT EVER !! THE PRESIDENT WHO WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE OF HIS NATION !! NOT FOR OLIGARCHS OR CORPORATIONS !! RUSSIA NEEDS PUTIN, not oligarchs!!!

[BasanTX]

Dmitry Medvedev will take over for Putin, but Putin will be the prime minister of Russia and will solve most of the problems Russia has.

[SexyGreek26]

Well done Vladimir! Keeping those American bastards honest!

[nilsorsky]

Russia without Putin and Medvedev!

[NewBe88]

Nice comment. Either u get money for this or u are brainwashed :)

[NewBe88]

directed to nilsorsky ;)

[nilsorsky]

putin good-bye So, probably medvedev will more smart then him. But, I don`t believe that

[CaptainCool07]

Putin is cool but dangerous. He's not running for another term though.

[adlsp]

Putin needs a couple of doses of humility before he self-destructs like every other out-of-control leader in human history (ultimate power corrupts).

[bullid79]

very good man!

[ed777vs]

Russia wants PEACE, like all of us! Can't say the same about USA....Americans they don't have future if they will continue this way...

[adlsp]

USA, i.e. Americans are a hodgepodge of people from all over the world and they want peace too. Why would they want to destroy their roots?

[1happiness]

He ruled the largest country in the world he transformed a crumpling nation into at least a nation with strong roots of economy and it's still growing. He might be dangerous but stability is the "Top priority in the largest country in the world".

[ShadowSpy]

ver powerful man... and dangerous

maybe not something like hitler, not so bad, but more like napoleon...

[aloethere]

avkisel you are sadly mislead.. in britain too, sad.. Bush is one of your world order groupies.. enslave the peasant your goal.. anyone of you that use the people of any country as a slave class.. Bush is your bastard not ours, its your congress too, pure communism.. antongaranin, yeah putin great kgb bastard.. How many years of slavery his kind, with such good hard people in you country..

[ukidding]

how much cash has putin stolen from the russian people (if any)?

[linuxiux]

The times chose Hitler in 1938 person of the year and Stalin in 1939 person of the years. So It is not surprising me that Putin became a person of the year :)

[4esss]

not surprising another comment from lithuanian nazi. heil lithuania! heil hitler!

[leotard9696]

The point he made with Kasparov was dangerously smart. Speaking in English was, politically speaking, one of the stupidest things Kasparov (a chess genius) could have done.

[ah75902]

Does anyone want to live in Russia? I have lived in Russia for many years.

[bboucharde]

It is too early for Americans to immigrate there, BUT THIS MAY HAPPEN if current trends in the USA continue. What would US middle-class immigrants need?

1. Secure title to private property

2. Reliable electricity, phone, & Internet

3. Competent & clean local government

4. Basic freedoms outlined in English Common Law (foundation of US legal system)

Until Russia advances to this level, we would not move there.

[aldeyan2]

Putin is my idol, he is the man!

[aloethere]

california is liberal , and the heartland will defeat any agression that defeats the liberal pussy leader selling our country down the road.. remmember you have to land on the beach, then just see how we slaughter you in the states between new york and california..

[aloethere]

Al Gore, world power banding together to manipulate democracy by fear of planetoid catastropy.. ha, ha.. notice the numbers of manipulators aligned with this lie for profit of control... wake the fuck up world new method same axis.. insiders every country.

[aloethere]

ah75902 , I know.. Look at the negative marks on you comment? this bastard putin wants a new cold war, and is most likly with china build up and agression.. this shit is from time communist, rag.. lots of progressive/liberal/communist here in usa. sad.

[aloethere]

red like blood to anyone weak in this world.. I am not..

[ah75902]

1938 - Adolf Hitler - person of the year 1939, 1942 - Joseph Stalin person of the year

[aloethere]

agree.. it's time again, I think.. Weak world leaders give them power.

[flyzies]

TIME couldnt have named a better "person of the year".

Under his leadership, Russia is well and truly back on table of international leadership.

[antongaranin]

Putin is a great man. The best president on earth.

[FiREFLYSerenity408]

Even though I am not Russian, I like Vladimir Putin. He seems such a great leader!!! And he deserves to hold power for years to come.

[bboucharde]

FiREFLYSerenity408 -- I am a nationalist, conservative American, but I respect Putin's intellect, alertness, and communication skills. I have spoken with other Americans about him, and there is a general respect for him. Our government, banks, and oil companies really don't know how to handle him, because they cannot manipulate or intimidate him, like they do most of the rest of the world.

[FiREFLYSerenity408]

Yes, there is general respect for him in the United States. However, it is respect from those who like strong and bold leaders like Putin. People in my home state of California doesn't understand him because they are 100% democratic-minded, and leaders such as the Russian president would overwhelm them. That is why Putin wanted the American people to vote for President Bush back in November 2004.

[bboucharde]

FiREFLYSerenity408 I lived in Calif for 38 years, and it is "more liberal" than the US heartland, and many Californians could not relate to such a strong, perceptive, quick-witted, educated white male like Putin. Too bad, because Calif has a grim future. Many businesses and middle class are moving out. It will become another Kosovo, eventually--It is ruined.

[FiREFLYSerenity408]

The politics in California is messed up, and it is correct that the state is more liberal than the U.S. heartland, counties such as Orange and San Diego would probably go with the heartland. There are those in the state who thinks that the War on Terror is not worth fighting for. Putin supports the War on Terror such as dealing with the terrorists in Chechnya, like the incident in Beslan. Once again, Putin would overwhelm Californians and they need to get their facts straight.

[aloethere]

agree putin deserves respect, but as a dangerous chess player.. Not like irainian idiot moe from the three stoogies leader or hitler... Putin is dangerous as a foe..

[tbirdky]

But Time magazine's designation is not an award as much as it is a measure on an individual's influence during the year. Time is not sanctioning him, but merely stating how he has reformed Russia back into a power that has the most clout since then end of the Cold War. In 2001, Time copped out and gave Guiliani the distinction instead of Osama Bin Laden, even though the latter had the most impact that year

[tbirdky]

Many Russian antagonists will be wailing about how Putin is undeserving of the Person of the Year "award" because of his perceived transgressions against American interests. .

[Beaumain]

Well, Putin is notable and influential, but why now? It seemed to be more at time in 2004 or 2002, not when he's leaving.

[Globox822]

Damn he is smart