Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua With the President of the United States, Barack Obama, Russian propaganda is forgiven not even with poorly hidden, but with undisguised hatred. One of the most popular presidents in the latest American history, leaving the White House with an unspent rating of folk sympathy, is portrayed in Moscow as a loser, an “imperialist”, an enemy of Russia, a man who dared to resist the very story that opened his front passage for the Putin motorcade.