He undoubtedly has dictatorial tendencies. He's also done more for the
poor than previous governments- and he's having a good time with
Bush. Boycott if you wish. OTOH, I thought about boycotting Lukoil
after hearing about the recent killing of Russia's bravest journalist-
Putin is a thug, too. As Tom Friedman of the NY Times has been
writing(though he's a bit of a late convert), our dependency on oil is
unhealthy in a lot of ways.