Russian President Vladimir Putin has one message that he likes to convey in his public speeches: that he is very much a man of the people, with the blood of simple Russian folk running through his veins. His idea of the people, however, has changed more than once during his lengthy reign and is changing once again right now. The people he chooses to meet in public and his own behavior show that for the president, the Russian people are currently embodied by… Source link
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