Putin's fear of the color orange

By Aussiegirl

Putin's fear of the color orange is being expressed in increasing measures that crack down on openness and basic freedoms in Russia. He's feeling the chill of the breeze of freedom blowing through his window and he's trying to shut it against the draft.

Putin's power grab - The Boston Globe

A HARSH law on nongovernmental organizations that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin coterie are pushing through a docile Duma shows Putin's true colors. This is the move of an antidemocratic ruler acting on the paranoid belief of his security services that foreign human rights, educational, and medical organizations are disguised tools of Western intelligence agencies plotting to orchestrate a popular uprising in Russia like those that toppled corrupt regimes in Georgia and Ukraine.