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by Hocketing Dad » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:39 pm
Hockey Dad wrote:^^^
Ballistic Bimbo Gap?
Hocketing Mailman resorts to anything, so as to exceed my post count...
by Hocketing Dad » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:07 pm
The relationship between Russian Prime Minister and probable future President Vladimir Putin and his wife of 28 years, Lyudmila, has been alternately portrayed as a nightmare union and a love story for the ages.
While the truth probably lies somewhere in between, new revelations about Putin's KGB career in East Germany suggest marital harmony was not high on the future leader's agenda.
Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, a journalist and expert on German intelligence, says he has proof a female West German spy was able to infiltrate the Putin household during the family's five-year stay in Dresden, East Germany. Her discovery? That Putin was an enthusiastic womanizer and a violent bully who beat his wife.
Schmidt-Eenboom, who has written numerous books and papers on Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency, maintains that the agent, a young woman operating under the name Lenchen, or Lenochka, was tasked with digging up information about the KGB's military and economic activities in southern Germany.
"But she quickly became friends with Lyudmila Putina and became a kind of trusted confidante for her," he says. "Lyudmila told her that Vladimir frequently beat her, and often cheated on her, that he had had trysts with other women."
The reporter claims he first heard the story of Lenchen -- who also went by the nickname "Balcony" because of her buxom chest -- while talking to a former senior BND official earlier this year.
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The new allegations are unlikely to tarnish Putin's image inside Russia, a country where marital indiscretions are considered both unremarkable and private.
Former Olympic gymnast and Russian Duma deputy Alina Kabayeva has been romantically linked with Putin.
If anything, the image of Putin as an uncompromising patriarch and red-hot lover are likely only to bolster the image of a leader whom "Forbes" magazine recently named as the world's second-most-powerful man.
The 59-year-old prime minister -- who is expected to return to the presidency next year after bumping incumbent Dmitry Medvedev out of his spot -- has been frequently linked to Alina Kabayeva, a former Olympic gymnast and one of the more toothsome members of the Russian Duma.
... Putina, 53, is known to refer to her husband as "the Freezer" for his unemotional personality. Putin, in return, has remarked that "Anyone who can spend three weeks with Lyudmila deserves a monument."
... Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said he has no comment on the reports. A spokesman for the BND likewise declined to make a statement, saying only, "We do not discuss our methods or our investigations."
by Ubu Hex » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:14 pm
Hockey Dad wrote:^^^
Ballistic Bimbo Gap?
Hocketing Mailman resorts to anything, so as to exceed my post count...
by Hockey Dad » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:48 am
by monster_gardener » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:31 am
Hockey Dad wrote:
Vladimir Putin hosts 59th birthday bash for himself
Vladimir Putin turned 59 on Friday holding a party for himself at one of his luxurious Moscow residences with his old friends Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
... Mr Putin's supporters were out in force on Friday. A group of young girls calling themselves 'Putin's Army' released a video of themselves baking him a birthday cake in a state of semi-undress, while another group of fans calling themselves 'Putin's kitchen' distributed free food in central Moscow.
The activists said they wanted to give passers-by the chance to taste Mr Putin's favourite dishes such as fish soup. Meanwhile, Nashi or 'One of Us,' the Kremlin's youth movement, released a video of thousands of activists lighting candles for him in the shape of the numeral 59 and singing their congratulations. Nashi activists in Moscow had briefly clashed with opposition supporters during the filming of the video near the Kremlin on Thursday night.
In one of the more bizarre tributes, 25,000 copies of a children's colouring book featuring Mr Putin and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as children went on sale. The book portrayed both men as hard working chums who played badminton and rode tricycles together, while a young Mr Putin was shown loving porridge and apples. Pro-Putin youth activists in Moscow were kept busy handing out 15,000 stickers featuring a smiling Mr Putin on Friday, while the blogosphere was blanketed with pro and anti-Putin Tweets. ...
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With my apologies, for not being able to find any photos of Berlusconi consorting with Putin's Army...
by Hocketing Dad » Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:30 pm
There was intense speculation about the state of the Putins' marriage last year, leading Lyudmila to make a rare television appearance alongside her husband. But it only added to the intrigue because she had apparently removed her wedding ring.
Mrs Putin, 53, has long maintained publicly that the five years the couple spent in Dresden were the happiest of their married life, following the birth of their two daughters in 1985 and 1986.
Mr Putin was 33 when he joined the four-strong team of KGB spies in the city and one of his main tasks was to infiltrate the university to keep an eye on the children of senior Russian and East German figures. The only previous hint that he could have been targeted by the West while still relatively junior came in the autobiography of Stella Rimington, the former director-general of M15, when she referred to a BND agent active in Dresden.
"In her book, the spy is a man," said Mr Schmidt-Eenboom yesterday. "Perhaps she was trying to keep a secret."
The female agent who befriended Mrs Putin was identified as "Lenchen" but was also known in the BND as "Balcony" because of her large breasts, Mr Schmidt-Eenboom said. She became pregnant during an affair with a KGB colonel and used this to engineer a visit to West Berlin for medical treatment, enabling her to escape the east in 1989 just months before the Wall fell.
She is understood to have been given a new identity and settled somewhere in southern Germany. ...
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... Today Mr Putin wears vintage denim jeans with rear pockets that elongate his buttocks exquisitely. Snug over taut buttocks the legs are looser without being baggy. I am reminded of Robert Redford in the Horse Whisperer. The short sleeved blue chambray shirt reveals a strength in his arms which is about to be tested before my very eyes!
Returning to the balcony Mr Putin is dragging a full size white door which he leans against the metal fencing once again looking over the edge and back towards the house. What on earth is he planning to do I wonder? Pulling out a length of cord-like rope he proceeds to tie it to the gilt coloured handle on the door yanking it several times to make sure it is secure.
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by Hockey Dad » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:46 pm
At a Friday dinner lasting two-and-a-half hours with academics, foreign-policy specialists and journalists at a luxurious restaurant at an equestrian center on the outskirts of Moscow—his first such encounter since announcing his candidacy for the presidency in elections in March—
Mr. Putin became animated as he attacked European energy policies.
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"We think we are being squeezed out of the European energy market," he said.
The Russian prime minister was asked how he reacted to developments that included a new European Union energy package that forbids gas suppliers from owning pipelines—a direct attack on the business model in Europe of the Russian state gas monopoly Gazprom—and raids by European competition authorities on Gazprom offices.
The new EU policy was introduced without consultation with Russia. Foreign investors had plowed in money and signed contracts—and then "you changed the laws and say now let's live by new rules."
"Relations in this area should be stable and should be enshrined in contacts. The [new] energy package annihilates the long-term programs," he said.
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Later in the same article:
... He reserved his warmest words for Mr. Berlusconi, providing a rare public voice in support of the Italian chief of government, who stepped down Saturday but will serve in that capacity until a new premier is named. Mr. Berlusconi is "one of the last Mohicans of European politics," said Mr. Putin, suggesting that Mr. Berlusconi's relationships with women were aimed at just attracting attention.
Mr. Putin said he had once been told by Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, that Mr. Berlusconi was a good man but "not a politician."
"He's an anarchist, and Italy is an anarchic country," Mr. Putin said, adding, perhaps as an afterthought, that he was joking.
Mr. Berlusconi had been good for stability in Italy and had built relationships inside and outside Europe, including with Russia.
"What I most like about him is that he's an open person," Mr. Putin said. Then, in an aside which suggests he feels less warmly toward other European leaders, he added: "I don't want offend anybody but there are not many people like that in European politics." ...
by Hockey Dad » Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:24 am
by Hockey Dad » Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:00 am
Boris_B wrote:Hey, is this like fangirl thread? Should I move this?
by Hockey Dad » Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:01 am
Ubu Hex wrote:Boris_B wrote:
Hey, is this like fangirl thread? Should I move this?
No need to be dramatic, is there now?
by Hocketing Dad » Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:37 am
November 12th: A group of political scholars known as the Valdai Club presented Putin with a report warning him his way of ruling Russia had almost run its course and could not go on forever.
Putin told the group: “Of course our system is not perfect,” adding he was aware of the shortcomings of his dual rule with President Dmitry Medvedev popularly dubbed a “tandem”.
“But I do not know any system of governance which is perfect” added Putin, who announced the decision to seek his third term as president in September.
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by monster_gardener » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:00 pm
Ubu Hex wrote:Hockey Dad wrote:
Why does the infamous scene from Marathon Man immediately come to mind?
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