1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Cloud Kicker (critialcloudkicker) http://rainbowdash.net/critialcloudkicker http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3459507 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/4320" class="url" title="RDN's Lucifer"><span class="fn nickname mention">nerthos</span></a></span> Pretty much that they will not allow themselves to be seen in a bad light, especially versus another country. Having &quot;commoners&quot; and &quot;plebs&quot; battle it out in a &quot;friendly competition&quot; of sports is one thing. But leaders should be portrayed as strong, and powerfull, no matter how they actually are. This is more true in Europe than in South- and North- America. And even more true in any part of Europe west of the Berlin wall. Putin will be portrayed as a topless bronze god on a pearly white horse, even if he is a coward. People will idolize him because of what is known of him, not of what he is. And manipulation of the information how you are known is what keeps him famous.