Vladimir Putin: A Profile He is a showy, "piano-playing" ex-KGB member with a "savvy smile" ( Trump is superficial ) who hates a lot of people, in my opinion, and lies a lot -- but this is only "my" opinion, as an AMERICAN. The real truth is he is Ex-KGB, essentially an "agent" for his country, now president has a lot of findable exploits on the internet as to his indescrepancies with law, and mis-use of power. For example, this article from the wayback machine I found, that has the information: A Bloody September In September 1999, a series of middle-of-the-night explosions shook Russian cities destroying several apartment blocks. More than 300 people died as they slept. The attacks, attributed to Chechen separatists, boosted the popularity of the hawkish would-be President Vladimir Putin. Then, a strange thing happened. A bomb was defused by the local police, and the trail of evidence led to the door of the FSB, the secret service. The FSB was forced to admit "an ill-conceived exercise", which was remarkably similar to the earlier explosions. Ever since, a question has lingered over Mr. Putin's presidency: Who Done It? Why was the “esxercise” incident covered up?Witnesses disappeared? Inquisitive journalists intimidated? Critical TV stations closed down? And who was behind the assassinations of two members of Russian Parliament, who persisted with their own investigation? Four years later, as Mr. Putin began campaigning for a second term, two Chechen rebels finally went on trial on charges related to the September 1999 bombings. But what is really happening at the trial, which is closed to the public and the press? And why an independent lawyer, who had been hired by the victims to investigate the case, was arrested a week before the trial on planted evidence? In these pages you will find the facts, the news and the views about the gravest of unsolved crimes of the XX century. Secretively killing off people, is something "agents" are known to do. However, this is hardly reviewed by anyone -- the vileness of such an act in the sake of power. More information: The War and Putin's Presidency The government blamed the explosions on Chechen separatists, swaying the public opinion in favor of the new war. On September 23, 1999, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered air strikes against Chechnya. The nationalist hysteria set off by the bombings helped Mr. Putin win Presidential elections in 2000. But the quick, victorious war that the new President promised to the Russian people turned out to be a bloody quagmire. Thousands of Russian soldiers, and tens of thousand of Chechen civilians have been killed, and many more lost their homes, making Chechnya a humanitarian catastrophe. Atrocities penetrated by the Russian army - unsurpassed in Europe since World War II - prompted accusations of genocide. Also from archive.org ^ Believe it or not, a lot of Putin's "exploits" and the bad things he's done have been erased off the internet, and take a lot of work to find ...... KGB career In 1975, Putin joined the KGB and trained at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. After training, he worked in the Second Chief Directorate (counter-intelligence), before he was transferred to the First Chief Directorate, where he monitored foreigners and consular officials in Leningrad. He was an investigator, and has always specialized in "intelligence" and "information." -- Hence his obsession with hacking, and cyber-criminal behavior. (Which is terroristic, in my eyes). Having my I.P. scanned by the Russian Federation is creepy, and I am always able to trace them, because I can break through VPN's like nothing, but they are acting like hackers, and some type of super-power when I see them as liars, and weak. And my biggest gripe with this man his how far he will go to promote his own image, and suggest he wants to stop terrorism, while committing such cyber crimes, in the name of his cold, sort of depressing, vodka-drinking country. BLS