Putin Envies Obama’s Ability to Spy on the World

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Putin Envies Obama’s Ability to Spy on the World

Topic: Ninth marathon Putin press conference (2013)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin

© RIA Novosti. Alexei Filippow

22:16 19/12/2013

MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he envied US President Barack Obama’s ability to spy on the rest of the world.

Putin, a former KGB agent, noted an absence of consequences for the US leader following theexposure of massive electronic spying programsconducted by the National Security Agency.

“I envy [Obama]. Because he can do this, and nothing will happen to him because of it,” Putin said.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has received temporary asylum in Russia after fleeing the US, revealed the scale of US spying capabilities in a series of documents leaked to the media earlier this year.

They showed that the NSA is collecting nearly 5 billion records per day on the location ofmobile phones around the world.  It was also revealed that German that the US had been spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone since 2002.

Putin appeared to express some sympathy for the US surveillance operations, saying that spying was an important weapon in the fight against terrorism. But he said that it should be conducted through “more-or-less understood rules and definite agreements, including [those] of a moral character.”

“I’m not going to justify anyone,” he said. “But on the whole, it [espionage] is a necessity.”

Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from law school in St. Petersburg, which was then called Leningrad. He worked first in the Soviet Union and then in East Germany before entering politics in the early 1990s.

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Putin Holds Annual Marathon Press Conference

Topic: Ninth marathon Putin press conference (2013)

Vladimir Putin holds annual marathon press conference

Vladimir Putin holds annual marathon press conference

© RIA Novosti. Alexey Filippov

12:13 19/12/2013

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 Say what one wishes, how many politicians in the U.S. or the west would take on 4 hours, hundreds of journalists, perhaps some real ones among them, no taboo questions, no script, no teleprompter, no speeches written by speech writers, no prearranged order of selected favorites, and with full follow-up to respond to and expose any lies, untruths, errors in reasoning etc?

MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – More than 1,300 journalists were accredited Wednesday for President Vladimir Putin’s marathon press conference, the ninth such event over the three terms he has served as head of state.

The annual encounters with Russian andinternational reporters have become a regular part of Putin’s efforts to convey an image of openness to media coverage. Media rights activists regularly complain of poor press freedoms in Russia, a claim that the authorities have endeavored to challenge through a variety of public relations exercises.

State television news station Rossiya-24 ran extensive and gushing coverage of the press conference for several hours ahead of the event Thursday, featuring interviews with Putin’s press spokesman and showing highlights from previous editions.

The presidential Q and A events, usually several hours long, have typically proven exhausting for journalists, however, and seem designed in part to prove the 61-year old leader’s physical stamina.

The precise length of the press conference is a regular topic of speculation before the day. Putin set the record in April this year, when he answered questions for four hours and 47 minutes.

In his first question and answer session last year after returning to the presidency, Putin lasted out for ten minutes short of his all-time record.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted in an interview with Rossiya-24 that all questions would be welcome and that his superior was irritated only by “stupid questions.”

“For Putin there are no awkward questions,” Peskov said.

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