Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
I'm not suggesting that ol' Volodymyr is some sort of saint, f, but be fair - he hasn't sent his tanks into Russia and slaughtered loads of civilians, has he? Between him and Mad Vlad P he's definitely the lesser of two evils.
I was drinking with a young (well 41-year-old, young to us) Russian lady on Sunday night. She was born in Moscow, but has a Ukrainian mother (who lives in Italy) and is estranged from her father, half-Russian, half Ukrainian very high up in Gazprom (oligarch territory). She was not very fond of Putin - almost hated him as much as her ex-boyfriend (a very good friend of mine, but an utter **** to women). Moral of this story is - don't get drunk in a Munich pub with a sexy blonde Russian on a Sunday night. And Putin is a ****