Sentence examples for putin tend from inspiring English sources

"People who declare they do not support President Putin tend to end up sipping polonium in their earl grey".

So, while mixing in some things Soviet, Putin and his government tend to improvise and garnish them with other ingredients.

Criticism of Mr Putin tends to be directed at aspects of his rule rather than the man himself.

Mr. Putin has also tended to use terrorism as a rationale for tightening control over the government.

There are signs that Mr Putin's thinking tends towards the latter, with a powerful Kremlin handing down instructions.

Voters in the largest cities, where opposition to Mr. Putin is concentrated, tended to stay home, while many rural voters, a bastion of support for the president, went to the polls.

"Americans tend to think of Putin as cold and calculating.

But the protests of the liberal minority tend to be dismissed in Putin's Russia.

Voters have come to identify United Russia with unresponsive, corrupt apparatchiks they encounter in their daily lives — but they tend not to blame Mr. Putin for the failures of other officials.

"All Western politicians that define themselves as out of the mainstream tend to have positive views of Russia and Putin," he said.

But such calls tend to be swiftly followed by new evidence of the Putin regime's caprice, prompting further disillusionment.