🗞🦀 Tyrant, despot, dictator, “mad Vlad.” After the “re-election farce” and the legitimation of torture in Russia, influential Western media stopped calling Putin president.

Western countries are still in no hurry to declare Vladimir Putin an illegitimate head of the Russian state, although debates about this have taken place in the EU . Unlike politicians, the British, French and German media are calling Putin “president” less and less often, the Moscow Region noted.

Dictator and despot.

👉 “The Kremlin tyrant gives a speech,” a photograph with Putin is signed on the pages of the German Bild. The publication uses different synonyms for this word: dictator, tyrant, and has practically stopped using the term “president”.

👉 The British newspaper The Telegraph also began to use the term “dictator” in relation to Putin. The tabloid The Suneven calls Putin “paranoid,” “crazy despot,” and “mad Vlad.” The newspaper sharply criticized the Russian leadership for torturing alleged terrorists from Crocus City Hall, as well as for the arrest of journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been in jail for a year.

Not the president, but the head of the Kremlin.

👉 “Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is calling up 150 thousand people into the army,” this is how the photo was captioned for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung article about the start of conscription. The German publication also almost stopped calling Putin “president.” Journalists call him “the head of the Kremlin.”

👉 In a similar way, Putin is characterized by Frankfurter Algemeine - “leader (chief) of the Kremlin.” Other German publications began to use this terminology, in particular Spiegel and Welt : “After a presidential election criticized as a farce, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin celebrated his victory and the tenth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.”

👉 Putin is also called the Chief of the Kremlin in French Le Monde and Liberation (Le maître du Kremlin).
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