Although the domination of the world population begins above such 
tedious concepts as nationality, control is still exerted directly on a 
national level.
 The back and forth of propaganda to divide and conquer the various 
peoples, nations and their attendant beliefs goes on unabated.
For the past several years an ever-growing chorus of bloggers and 
alternative media types have been pointing out what a pussy Obama is and
 what a manly-man Putin is. 
Also, that Obama is a  teleprompter-reading corporate mouthpiece and 
that Putin is a brave truthteller, a guy speaking from the gut.
This is, of course, all horseshit and they are both ass-licking, murderous, humanoid drones.
Russia Today, with its crew of western-styled FSB droogs and devotchkas is the open face of former KGB, now FSB, propaganda.
Has everyone forgotten the FSB's foiled apartment bombing that was to be blamed on Chechen terrorists?
Or that Putin was appointed head of the KGB by the drunken fool Yeltsin?
Or the numerous assassinations, political power grabs and assorted atrocities Putin is accused of?
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko 
In the alternative media there is little to no criticism of Putin, even as many bloggers decry the communist leanings of Obama.
Suits like Putin and Obama and all the rest, serve the same master. Don't be fooled.
                                         "Wink, wink, nod, nod."
                                     
 *******UPDATE*******
The day following this post, the 21st of September 2013,  a link on the Rense website appeared for this article:
http://tomatobubble.com/putin_anti_communist.html
This site looks all the world like a propaganda front for the FSB, just in its styling alone. 
As for the claims made in the article, much can be made out of one party opposing another publicly and yet being very cozy behind the scenes.
All those years the West opposed the Soviet Union we were at the same time propping it up economically.
Antony Sutton speaks to this:
And the support was from the very inception of the Bolshevik  Revolution, supported by the top financiers in the United States:
The Rulers of Earth are setting up a global showdown with the U.S. , Europe and Israel on one side and Russia, China and Middle-Eastern nations on the other. This is the broad template for WW3 in as much as it can be forseen at this time. Other players, such as South America and India, may present unforseen game changes.
"
The Third World War must be fomented by 
                    taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" 
                    of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the 
                    leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such 
                    a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political 
                    Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. 
                    Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue 
                    will be constrained to fight to the point of complete 
                    physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We 
                    shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall 
                    provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its 
                    horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of 
                    absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody 
                    turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend 
                    themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, 
                    will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the 
                    multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic 
                    spirits will from that moment be without compass or 
                    direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where 
                    to render its adoration, will receive the true light through 
                    the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, 
                    brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation 
                    will result from the general reactionary movement which will 
                    follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both 
                    conquered and exterminated at the same time." -
Albert Pike.
Economics. For so long politicians and pundits touted the U.S. economic success as a reason, an excuse, for all sorts of misadventures. Slowly but surely they transferred the majority of manufacturing to China -but in the meantime before the 2008 crash it was all
"Ra Ra Ra, aren't we so great, nothing can go wrong."
Russia at this time can afford to gloat and be prideful what they have, in oil and mineral wealth, but it seems to me that the same economic masters who control the West control them as well.  Why would they ever give that up? And who would stop them? They've not been stopped yet...
The 
double-headed eagle holds a scepter of rulership in one claw and a globe with a cross encircling it, surrounded by the laurel leaves of Freemasonry.  A little too close to the oroboros..
                VICTORIAN MASONIC 9CT GOLD SNAKE, GLOBE & SUN BROOCH BIRTH SIGN "CANCER"
Notice the cross representing the zodiac. 
Religion. Propaganda, in a word. Set up a straw man, like Pussy Riot, 
and then just watch it play out. If it is western intel behind such 
purile staged events, no surprise, but it is just as possible for it to 
be FSB gaming we see. Western media soaks it up like gravy. Lots of fun,
 while the bloodsport on the world stage continues.
Also:
And now this:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/putin-fights-war-of-images-and-propaganda-with-russia-today-channel-a-916162.html
this is good: