Have you not been paying attention? Putin is a former KGB guy. Do you not know how they operated? Furthermore, Putin has had no problem shredding up the Russian Constitution and effectively granting himself a lifetime appointment. He's supplied arms to very unscrupulous Mideast factions. He's imprisoned people who speak out against him (or they went missing). The evidence is all over the place. And yet, cos he speaks out on one moral issue, you want to christen him as better than Obama? They're the same dude. They just cherry pick different issues. Even Snowden, that's not Russia making a stand. That's just Putin seeing a political football. Russia spies like crazy too.