Tony from Canarsie, you wrote: "Many extreme right American web sites run stories, usually involving antisemitic and other loopy global conspiracy theories..."

I guess this guy didn't get your memo (At 2:02 in the video):

http://youtu.be/hXWeOa-FuyM?t=2m11s

"The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet."

jgarbuz, you are the just poster child for humanity

To Leo

Many wives abuse their husbands and get them taken away by police only to dispossess him of his home and children. Grow up. Real life is not like your liberal lens.

Remember the time when George w Bush said he looked into his eyes and saw his soul.

I'm not sure if I missed this, but I haven't heard any mention of the fact that Masha Gessen was just appointed as Director of the Moscow Office of Radio Liberty a few months ago. So she, too, is indirectly employed by the US. I'm honestly not suggesting any impropriety or anything, but it just struck me as a relevant fact, given the general conversation.

Wow. Comparing this interview with the Sandra Day O'Connor one is the very definition of courage vs. cowardice.

Hey, censors, where is my message about the linguistic conspiracy?

@ fuva

Except that she had left before...

The English need their tea, the Russians need their Czars - from Ivan, Stalin to Putin. Sadly, it seems to be their nature.

Many extreme right American web sites run stories, usually involving antisemitic and other loopy global conspiracy theories, which originate from pro-Putin Russian websites. What's up with that, a disinformation campaign or just disinterest in the truth?

jgarbuz: Your argument is synonymous with the arguments made against battered wives: “ The man is not a criminal, he is a good provider and if the woman didn’t like the abusive relationship she would leave him”.
Just because Russians have been ruled by despots and criminals for hundreds of years doesn’t mean that most people like it or can do anything about it.

"...This is my home. I'm not leaving; HE (Putin) should leave..."
Right on, Masha. God bless.

This psychopath is running a criminal enterprise – Not sure why the US and Europe give this mob boss any credibility. We should be actively working with decent Russians in their struggle for a semi-democratic or at least less corrupt society.

wasn't Putin responsible for poisoning a Russian spy? the guy who died from radio-active poisoning in UK.

Putin may be a threat to some of his own people, but I don't know why he should be considered a threat to the world. He's not peddling a revolutionary theory, like Communism or Jihadism, but seems to be the kind of strong man that many Russians seem to like, due to their nearly 1000 year history of having strong men as their leaders. Russia today is a rudimentary democracy, and if things are far from perfect, so was the United States even 60 years ago. While we should push democracy everywhere, including in our own country, we have to accept the fact that road to democracy is long and bumpy.