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Originally Posted by Letum
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As I see it, he did what was needed to crush down the organised crime and the economical oligarchs trying to distribute not only the economy but also the state amongst themselves. These criminals became strong, because the violant rush of capitalism into Russia after Gorbatschow suddenly opened them the freedom needed to unfold and to blossom.
Russian population is shrinking, and in Southern areas is really being threatened to become a dominated ethnicity, by Islamic people, and in certain Eastern areas becoming dominated by illegally immigrating chinese who pour into the empty spaces of Russia there. Thus Putin's attempßt to forge an inofficial alliance with the right and the nationalistic as well, and forbidding non-russians to trade and work in Russia freely.
All this policy certainly is not popular in the West. What people here do not understand is that Russia is fighting a very vital fight for national integrity and keeping a basic national identity intact - things the EU bureaucrats have given up any understanding of. I see Putin's course critically, but I still can comprehend his steps. When i eventually cannot understand such steps anymore - then I will become nervous about Russia. Not earlier. Putin sees in the European nations and their loosing ground to immigration especially from Islamic countries and the growing deconstruction of historically grown national self-identities by that, what would happen to Russia if russia would uncritically copy the unlimited tolernace and totally open democracy that is lectured by Brussel. And obviously he does not like that example where the West wants him to steer at.
For which I will not criticise him, for I wouldn't like it, too.
I consider organised crime and the "Russian Mafia" (any mafia-like structure) as one of the greatest threats for europe, due to their tendencies to slowly sink into legal economic structures and by legal means abuse them for their own financial interests, in a way that criminal figures turn out to become legal, well-respected members of civil society, and becoming untouchable for the law. This tendency is a very, very dangerous tren going on. The difference between legal and illegal, criminal and lawful are vanishing. If Mafia and economical and political leadership become identical, what help is there left, then?