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Ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. (Photo by Natasja Weitsz/Getty Images)

 

Putin’s placeman in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. (Photo by Ruslan Alkhanov/AFP/Getty Images)

 

All smiles at Putin’s first meeting in 2004 with the Western-oriented Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili later mocked the Russian as
‘Liliputin’. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, leaders of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. (Courtesy of European Peoples Party)

 

Putin’s patriots. The Russian leader holds regular meetings with his young supporters in Nashi. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin’s portraits for sale in a stationery store. (Vladimir Menkov)

 

Putin as a child dreamt of joining the KGB. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

After university he fulfilled his dream. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin with his wife Lyudmila on a rare public appearance together. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin’s appearances with his dog Koni are more frequent. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin the judoist. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin discovers two Grecian urns in the Black Sea in the summer of 2011. His spokesman later admitted they were planted for him. (Courtesy of RIA Novosti)

 

Doing the butterfly stroke in an icy Siberian river. (Courtesy of RIA Novosti)

 

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