{"id":1033,"date":"2014-05-10T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-05-10T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:29:38","slug":"who-is-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/10\/who-is-vladimir-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Vladimir Putin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you&#8217;ve got it made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that Vladimir Putin fakes it. It is fashionable to be cynical about all politicians and cynicism is understandable. But I believe that Putin has an honest soul. I think this honesty and a commitment to values of respect for self, for law and for others can be seen in the clips I&#8217;ve collected here. Putin&#8217;s sincerity comes across strongly in this speech made on 10 February 2007 at 43rd Munich Security Conference:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wH0eHekt84g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is his sincerity that won him the respect of these young Russian rappers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cm-4_G0koxU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Respect is also a theme in Putin&#8217;s introduction to the Vienna Judo Championships:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vyqAFO7RJeg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Putin&#8217;s 2010 performance at the piano and singing &#8216;Blueberry Hill&#8217; would not get him far on &#8216;The X-factor&#8217; his audience certainly warmed to a presidential performance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IV4IjHz2yIo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Putin&#8217;s association with a biker club called the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shortcuts\/2013\/apr\/11\/vladimir-putin-night-wolves-mororcycle-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Night Wolves<\/a>&#8216; or &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/rbth.com\/society\/2013\/12\/08\/night_wolves_russias_answer_to_hells_angels_32369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nochniye Volki<\/a>&#8216; is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xm0f4iSnNtQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U-5uQtDTRKQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Night Wolves leadership certainly respects Putin and he lauds the positive work they have done. I don&#8217;t enough about the Wolves or their association with Putin to say more than &#8216;it&#8217;s interesting&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you&#8217;ve got it made. I don&#8217;t think that Vladimir Putin fakes it. It is fashionable to be cynical about all politicians and cynicism is understandable. But I believe that Putin has an honest soul. I think this honesty and a commitment to values&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/10\/who-is-vladimir-putin\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}