[eternalban]

Because he and NYTimes do not wish to actually discuss the issues. To wit, yesterday's Sunday Times had a full court press vilification spread on Putin and his friends. Do not recall seeing the same treatment for related matter in this USA. Same with front page treatment of protests in Cairo vs. complete silence Washington DC (post 2001).

So the reasonable question is why do you expect consistency from an apparatus of the power elite beyond consistently covering their own dirty tracks?

[vixin]

If Putin is indeed immensely rich then it's difficult to see how he could accumulate such wealth other than by corrruption. If corruption is responsible for some folk's wealth in the US, the appropropriate agencies should get to work and nail them and one has a reasonable expectation that due process will occur. Dream on with Putin. Isn't that the difference between Russia and the US?