I never expected to hear Putin being accused of...

[Mark6]

...being in league with liberal feminists

Mr Putin has so far defended the central bank against accusations from populists in the Duma that it has betrayed Russia by letting the rouble crash, and is run by "liberal feminists" in thrall to the International Monetary Fund.

I suppose Putin is factually correct here: Russian Central Bank is not in fact run by liberal feminists in thrall to the IMF. But it is rather amusing to see him being attacked by people even more xenophobic than he is.

Russian far-right cranks seem to be just as paranoid about the IMF as American far-right cranks are paranoid about the Federal Reserve System (and occasionally about IMF too). Sometimes you can't tell the two apart without seeing which flag they are waving.

 

[timhau]

I suppose Putin is factually correct here: Russian Central Bank is not in fact run by liberal feminists in thrall to the IMF.

I suppose the evidence for that is that the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia is, in fact, a woman.

 

[Newtons Bit]

A WOMAN?!?!?!

 

[timhau]

A WOMAN?!?!?!

Yes. It all fits, doesn't it?

 

[Mark6]

And a Bashkir at that.

American equivalent would be a Navajo woman in charge of Federal Reserve.

 

[ddt]

And a Bashkir at that.

Nitpick: Tatar.
http://russiaprofile.org/bg_people/resources_whoiswho_alphabet_n_nabiullina.html:

Elvira Nabiullina (Эльвира Сахипзадовна Набиуллина) was born on October 29, 1963 in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan. She is an ethnic Tatar.

 

[angrysoba]

...being in league with liberal feminists

I suppose Putin is factually correct here: Russian Central Bank is not in fact run by liberal feminists in thrall to the IMF. But it is rather amusing to see him being attacked by people even more xenophobic than he is.

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In Russia, Putin is a liberal feminist. It remains to be seen who comes after him.

 

[fuelair]

I never expected to hear Putin being accused of... being a model for Tom of Finland!!!!






Well, actually I did after seeing several of his photos.................

 

[Strawberry]

A WOMAN?!?!?!

Ah well, no wonder the rouble's crashed.

 

[timhau]

In Russia, Putin is a liberal feminist.

Yes. In Putin's Russia, bras burn you.

 

[fuelair]

Yes. In Putin's Russia, bras burn you.

That's likely why they had all those Pussy Riots.................

 

[Puppycow]

Yes. It all fits, doesn't it?

Well if she has a career, other than traditional wimmin's work, then by definition she's some kind of radical feminist, right?

 

[Aber]

She's not the first; state banking in the Soviet Union especially outside Promstroi was women's work.

However Iron Tanya was not much of a liberal feminist.

 

[Beerina]

He'd have to put a shirt on first before he could wear one with prints of women in bikinis.

 

[Polaris]

In Russia, Putin is a liberal feminist. It remains to be seen who comes after him.

Pffff. It he was a real liberal feminist the ladies would come before he did.