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by Nina Bachkatov MOSCOW, November (Le Monde diplomatique)–It was clear at the APEC summit in Shanghai in October that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is not impulsive. Well aware of his country’s strengths as well as its weaknesses, he was one of the first to condole United States president George W Bush and propose collaboration […]