No wonder they are personal friends: each of them has a habit of 'spontaneous' outbursts (which, in Putin's case, are prepared in advance in conformity with the Russian' national character ').

怪不得他俩私下里是朋友呢：每个人都有“不由自主”的情绪爆发(普京的情况则是事先安排好的，以适合俄罗斯的“民族性格”)。

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Regardless of any anti-democratic traits in Russian national character, people are just tired of being ruled by the same guy for 12 years.

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