It's about time... His iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia, read an English version of the committees statement. He became the antiterrorist No. 1 and the national hero. Not only that, it applauded him for acting as the propagandist of current political events while still in high school, and for being selected to join the K.G.B. while in college, which made true his teenage dream of joining the K.G.B. Much later, of course, came the large-scale military action towards the illegal armed forces in Grozny, Chechnya. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/world/asia/chinas-confucius-prize-awarded-to-vladimir-putin.html
Amazing! First Obama the Warmonger, now the guy who trampled on Russian individual liberties.....who's next? Henry Kissinger? George Soros?