Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with transport Minister Maxim Sokolov in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow, Russia, November 2, 2015. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin
Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast: Putin Was Missing in Action After Plane Crash
It took days for the Russia’s president to acknowledge the worst aviation accident in the country’s history, and people aren’t afraid to criticize him for it.
All day on Sunday, the day after a Kogalymavia plane crash killed 224 people, the biggest loss in the history of Russian commercial aviation, Russians were wondering: Where is Putin?
Russia’s leader did not appear in public for almost two days. Finally, on Monday, President Vladimir Putin made his first comments about the “enormous tragedy.” As he spoke, state cargo planes were bringing remains of dead from Egypt to St. Petersburg, Putin’s home city.
In the video aired by state television channels, Putin looked heartbroken, humbled. That was not the usual action man that Russians had been shown before: Putin on top of a horse or lecturing the United Nations.
WNU Editor: Putin rarely makes a public announcement on a tragedy a day or two after it has happened .... so the loss of this airline jet was nothing out of the ordinary. And as to going to the airport to meet grieving family members .... again .... it is not his style, though I suspect that he will meet some of them later but without the cameras.
" again .... it is not his style, though I suspect that he will meet some of them later but without the cameras."
ReplyDeleteThat is more classy than an American politician, who gets the camera shot and then afterwards does nothing on the world stage for vengeance.