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Authors: Angus Roxburgh

Strongman (48 page)

Putin at the controls of a jetplane. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin and Dmitry Medvedev celebrate the latter’s election as president in May 2008. The crowd on Red Square chanted only Putin’s name.
(www.kremlin.ru)

 

During the 2009 financial crisis, Putin forces billionaire Oleg Deripaska to sign a paper promising to get the one-factory town of Pikalyovo working again.
(Courtesy of RIA Novosti)

 

July 2009: President Barack Obama explains his plans for a US–Russian ‘reset’ at Putin’s dacha. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

June 2010: President Medvedev heads off with Barack Obama for a hamburger lunch. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton press a toy ‘reset button’. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

The modernising Medvedev is rarely seen without his iPad. (Courtesy of RIA Novosti)

 

Dmitry Medvedev became president in 2008 knowing he would probably hand back to Putin four years later. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

In September they told a congress of the United Russia party that they had agreed to swap roles, allowing Putin to regain the presidency for as much as 12 more
years. (www.kremlin.ru)

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