Putin's Progress

by Peter Truscott

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Russia's current president, and a racing certainty to be re-elected in 2004, Vladimir Putin seemed to have come from nowhere when he succeeded Boris Yeltsin in March 2000. It was as if he had taken the Kremlin by stealth -- perhaps using the skills he acquired as a senior officer in the KGB. In fact, Putin's rise to prominence owes more to a combination of canny manoeuvring and good old-fashioned patronage. A fiercely loyal citizen of St Petersburg, from a poor but stable background, he has throughout his life maintained close contacts with key officials in that city. And...Read more
  • ISBN10 0743240057
  • ISBN13 9780743240055
  • Publish Date 6 December 2003
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 17 June 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Pages 336
  • Language English