To list a few: (Alexei Navalny, February 2024; Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Lesin, Sergey Magnitsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalia Estemirova, Stanislav Markelov, et al). And the U.S. President is now championing his cause.

Putin's opponents and critics have been gunned down on the streets of Moscow in broad daylight (Boris Nemstov, February 2015), poisoned with nerve agents or died otherwise under questionable circumstances.

Putin was president from 2000 - 2008, then president de facto from 2008 - 2012 (as prime minister under Medvedev, who was largely powerless), and regained the presidency in 2012... He has been in power since 2000. Let that sink in.

I suddenly feel like I'm back in Russia...

That's a great photo!

Putin already did that when he grabbed Crimea from Ukraine.

It appears Trump has learned from them (Russia).

Hi Denise! I follow you on FB and take lots of Fenzi courses :)

We have one such person at the helm of our country currently; a troubling situation indeed

An intelligent person should not need to shout to get a point across. It is rude. And it is certainly not presidential. It is often indicative of self-obsession, a craving for attention, and emotional imbalance.

Italics can be used for emphasis quite nicely. Why would any intelligent person want to produce a text that looks like it was written by Son of Sam?