How to get elected

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?GSDVC Russians are stuck in the ‘middle-income trap’

Putin: He has increased pension payments by 9.4 per cent, boosted welfare payments, cut the cost of housing by 30 per cent, paid to freeze utility bills and gasoline prices, given big raises to university professors, doubled the wages of soldiers, more than doubled the salaries of police officers.

[merlin]

Sounds like a politician to me, does he ride?