Yes it will. There is a huge scandal brooding in Germany about the Goverment Agencies sharing wiretaps etc. with US goverment, and high-ranking politicians not only seem to. have been informed but are even justifying actions like this in general. (Knowing that the EU is only as strong as its members, these revelations are really disconcerting to me even before I can see the extent of surveillance data shared)

Many implementations of democracy have this problem, most prominent example of course the US.

I'm always amazed how the public opinion of putin ranges from "evil dictator" to "clever politician".

To become an evil dictator, it's often necessary to be a clever politician.

I had trouble putting this in words. By "clever politician" I mean people seeing Putin on TV or something and saying, "Ah, thats very clever" or even "Pretty amusing how he dealt with/did x". Media coverage in Central Europe is always very critical towards Putin, and while their stories may be distorted in some respects, I still believe them about many civilian rights beeing violated under his influence.

Isn't it the same for every politician?

Why would you do that, I never even heard of this before.

I strongly agree with ScottWhigham in this matter. If anything, I have a problem with the fact that every word im the English Language gets assigned to multiple IT products, movies, books etc. which inevitably leads to confusion.