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Posted inEastern Europe & Russia

The Flexible Way to Victory

The future president barely stood out from the crowd at school. It may have been the making of him. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia–As he begins his second term in office, President Vladimir Putin now finds his image imprinted on the electorate’s consciousness as distinctly as Lenin’s portrait once was on the tattooed chests of Soviet soldiers. […]