...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko will meet next week in Belarus with EU representatives, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
Meanwhile Poroshenko's office said leaders would use the August 26 meeting to discuss ways to stabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine, energy security and Kiev's new trade deal with the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, which Russia has opposed.