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Putin +‎ -esque

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Putinesque (comparative more Putinesque, superlative most Putinesque)

  1. Reminiscent of the beliefs or policies of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia since 2012.
    Synonym: Putinian
    • 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Appointed foreign minister in 2004, he has since then through successive US administrations developed a Putinesque revulsion for all western ideas, if not all western consumer durables. At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the door of American arrogance.

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