I showed the portrait to his family and they loved it.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Even so, roughly 70 of respondents in a February poll said that they approved of Putin s performance.