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Tango01  | 23 Mar 2020 1:14 p.m. PST |
…President of Russia. "Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago. Yet today Putin has become the Godfather of a vast Mafia state – and to do that he has combined the dirty skills of a former spy with a close knowledge of Russia's violent underworld, according to a new three-part documentary that starts tomorrow night on Channel 4. Putin: A Russian Spy Story shows how much of the Russian's political career was informed by his time as a KGB officer in the late 1980s – and, later, as a fixer at the heart of corrupt local politics and the criminal underworld of St Petersburg…" YouTube link
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| StarCruiser | 23 Mar 2020 6:57 p.m. PST |
"…his power is as awesome as any Czar." Yes but, no Czar would be likely to step to such low levels as working with mobsters…right? |
| Tango01 | 24 Mar 2020 12:17 p.m. PST |
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| jdginaz | 24 Mar 2020 1:25 p.m. PST |
In the Czar's time the mobsters were called Boyars. |
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