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Real Putin, The

Opinion Piece/Newspaper Article

Author
Michael A. McFaul - Stanford University

Published by
Wall Street Journal (Europe), July 9, 2003


Who is Vladimir Putin?

Since the rise to power in Russia of this obscure bureaucrat and former KGB agent in the fall of 1999, two groups in the West have answered this question very differently.

Topics: Europe | Russia