Originally Posted by
etudiant
My sense is that it will be difficult to find a more willing partner. Yeltsin was very accommodating, all it got Russia was NATO moving east, contrary to what Russia thought had been agreed.
I share these doubts. In Russian elctions regularly the second and third ranked parties/candidates are even (way) more hard-core and crazy than Vlad'. I'm afraid all he is doing is playing to the audience. Our problem is not only this one Chap. It is a rather a whole Nation which has not fully swallowed the loss/decline of former Importance.