The popular Russian weekly Vlast has published a lengthy account of how President Putin spent his time over the last year. It seems Putin has been burning up the Kremlin’s anytime minutes chatting with President Bush. Putin spoke with Bush eight times over the last year, more often than he spoke with any other head of state. However, the surname most frequently repeated by Putin in public was not Bush, but Merkel. Other than Russia, Germany was also the country most frequently mentioned by the Russian president. More worrisome is the frequency with which Putin speaks to, visits, and hosts the world’s despots. There were only three countries that Putin visited more than once: Belarus, China, and Finland. And the foreigner he met most often with over the past year was Belorussian strong man Alexander Lukashenko. While the rest of Europe has been working to isolate the continent’s “last dictator,” Putin has been a stalwart supporter, receiving Lukashenko at the Kremlin on three occasions, for a total of five meetings between the two in the last year. Vlast also dissects public opinion of the Russian president, showing 59 percent of Russians support a third term, even though Putin is currently barred from seeking one by the Russian constitution. The president’s current approval rating stands at a whopping 81 percent, up six points from the same time last year. Beneath that impressive number though, there does seem to be some Putin-fatigue.