Putin not ruling out 2012 run

MOSCOW - President
Vladimir Putin who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term next year, left the door open for a return to the Kremlin in 2012, a Russian newspaper reported Saturday.

"There is still a lot of time," the daily Kommersant quoted Putin as telling reporters Friday, during a Group of Eight summit in Germany, when asked whether he would run in 2012. "Theoretically it's possible. The constitution does not forbid it. But it's very far away, I haven't even thought about this."

On one level, the remark could be taken as a straight statement of fact: while the 1993 Russian Constitution bars presidents from serving more than two consecutive four-year terms, it allows them to seek re-election after a hiatus.

And in the meantime Russia gets to be ruled by one of Putins hench- men... Somebody up for at dollar bet? Russia has become a leaner, meaner clone of old Soviet Union. The Russian people have not just realized it. The Europeian politicians chooses to look the other way. Soon we will find us in a two front war. The jihadists on one side, and an ever more totalitarian Russia on the other. Both partys historically connected to each other. Samma andas barn- Born out of the same womb.

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