Vladimir Putin is probably the most popular Russian leader there has ever been, polling up around a phenomenal 80% as recently as November 2015 in a study carried out by a team of American researchers. This makes him inarguably the most popular world leader today, though you would think the opposite given the way he’s routinely depicted and demonized in the West.Putin came to power in 1999, when Russia had experienced almost a decade of chaos following the demise of the Soviet Union.He is a national savior and hero, a man, sober and exceptionally smart, who stepped from shadows to resuscitate a proud country that others had run aground, looted, and left for dead. Boris Yeltsin was a puppet of USA. He allowed the Western corporations and the American backed oligarchs to loot the national wealth of Russia.Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people…