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At a meeting in Stockholm with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that visa regulations would be eased while emphasising economic cooperation between the countries.
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Soviets Marxists you still living in the cold war ere?
Putin is oe of the biggest Capitalist going
The Swedish Vikings colonize Russia, so we could say that we are seeing our fellow brothers.
They need to give their heads a shake, it's not 1976, we're not trying to go over there to steal their secrets anymore. And whoopteedoo, a 72 hour visa waiver to go on a ferry to St.Petersburg? That's gonna have some MAJOR economic impact! Not!
Putin shouldn't be welcomed by civilized countries respecting basic human rights. Russian is the deadliest threat to security of civilized European countries: Economical - it controls gas supply to Europe and military - the government is taken by group of criminals passing presidency to each other so no one can be brought to justice.
Russia invaded Georgia and shed blood of civilians to block any efforts of supply of cheap gas from Turkmenistan to Europe as income from gas and oil make up more than 80% of their budget.
Russia is the world leader for murders of human rights activists, free reporters and lawyers exposing its acts of genocide and crimes against humanity in Chechnya...