![]() ![]() In the beginning we saw only a few selected images – Putin the judo champion, Putin at the controls of a fighter jet. But he has grown into a man with no inhibitions – a strongman and a narcissist, who flaunts his physical strength in ever more frequent photo-shoots. The former KGB spy was rather reserved and gauche at first, when he was unexpectedly propelled into high office in 1999. Russia’s ‘national leader’ is like no other country’s president or prime minister. He lowers his head, tilting his eyes upwards towards you, and fixes you for several seconds, as though memorising every detail, or maybe matching your face to a picture he had memorised earlier… It is a glowering, piercing, highly unsettling look. When you shake hands with Vladimir Putin you scarcely notice whether it is a firm or a weak handshake. Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia
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