He spent too much time building up currency reserves that were the subject of recent raids and not enough in building Russian infrastructure. He is far better than Yeltsin but he deserves criticism for policies like that I mentioned here. Primakov probably would have been better, but he was old and Russians have had too many people governing them from the sanitarium. He should never have made that Illarionov character an adviser...
To think, had he done more things right he would be more reviled in the West as evil incarnate!
Putin could have done better
To think, had he done more things right he would be more reviled in the West as evil incarnate!