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"I looked the man in the eye deep and I saw his soul. I think that is straightforward and reliable. " - U.S. President George W. Bush Vladimir Putin, after first meeting in Slovenia in 2001.
"I watched (Putin, vj) in the eye and I saw what the KGB killer, which I have seen throughout my life." - Robert Gates, former CIA official, Minister of Defense in 2007.
At the end of her book on not only political life of Vladimir Putin, Masha Gessen author thanks all those who helped in writing and whose work she dares not mention them by name for fear it would be subject to repression by the Kremlin regime. Gessen, the courageous Russian journalist, has written a book that does not leave the reader indifferent. This piecemeal work reads like a novel criminology to evoke fear. With the recent events about the annexation of the Crimea in international opinion is still the question of who is Vladimir Putin, who ruled Russia politician since 2000 - as president and prime minister (for 4 years).
For Masha Gessen, who has lived a decade in exile in America, there is no doubt that Putin is "a man without cassandra clare books a face" (this is the title of the book). He represents the type of secret service officer, who hates democracy and transparency. After years of Boris Yeltsin dramatically, which was allowed to enter the country's economy under control and ruthless oligarchs cassandra clare books which last years in office barely bare feet due to illness and consumption of alcohol, the head of state Vladimir came Putin.
Nobody knew this man, who after the dissolution of the Soviet Union had worked alongside cassandra clare books Anatoly Sobçakut, mayor of St. Petersburg, Russian metropolis with a checkered history between East and West. For Putin, the end of the Soviet Union was a tragedy not only because he lost work in East German Leipzig, but also the reputation as the representative of a superpower. In St. Petersburg, Putin first became noticed as civil correct, even oligarch Boris Berezovsky later showed that when he opened a workshop a car in this city, and had helped Putin had refused cassandra clare books to take bribes.
Yeltsin was important for his successor to ensure that they will not be prosecuted. With the help of collaborators and Boris Berezovsky, he had begun to seek a suitable candidate. On July 1, 1999 Berezovsky went to Biarritz cassandra clare books in southwest France, where Putin, now head of the Russian secret service FSB, was passing with family vacations. There Berezovsky Putin made it clear that he had an offer for him and that he ought to meet Yeltsin. A few days later meeting between these two was conducted in Moscow and here on the people around Yeltsin began to prepare the ground for Putin. Masha Gessen writes that almost nobody had abundant information for Putin, Yeltsin's but appreciate the fact that he, as an officer cassandra clare books of the KGB, was loyal to the state.
A few days later Russia was rocked by bomb attacks and explosions in the air throwing cassandra clare books high-rise apartment buildings. Hundreds of people were killed, cassandra clare books thousands injured, millions more live in anxiety. Based on research concludes Gessen's terrific that stood behind attacks Russian secret service FSB. The aim was to blame for the attacks cassandra clare books to dress "Chechen terrorists" and thus create a pretext to launch war against Chechnya. It seemed that everything was coordinated: Yeltsin issued a decree on military engagement in Chechnya (although, according to the Constitution, the Russian army can not fight within the state), while Putin's first appearance on television swore that 'will' cassandra clare books The destroy "terrorists, would" delete "will" annihilate "the" loo ". cassandra clare books
In the years following Putin would become known for his vulgar language. When in 2002, a French journalist during a press conference in Brussels asked Putin about the violation of human rights in Chechnya, he said darkly: "If you definitely want to become a fundamentalist Islamic invite you to come to Moscow . We have good surgeons and they will be circumcised, even so that you will not grow anything. " After U.S. President Barack Obama said the Russian president with one foot in the old world is, with another in the cloud, Putin replied: "We do not open our legs." Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, Putin was shocked with a primitive cassandra clare books joke about the sexual relationship between his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and U.S. Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice.
On May 7, 2000, lawyer Vladimir Putin officially became president of Russia after he managed to demontonte political rivals and be presented to the voters as an uncompromising fighter of terrorists in the Caucasus. During cassandra clare books l
"I looked the man in the eye deep and I saw his soul. I think that is straightforward and reliable. " - U.S. President George W. Bush Vladimir Putin, after first meeting in Slovenia in 2001.
"I watched (Putin, vj) in the eye and I saw what the KGB killer, which I have seen throughout my life." - Robert Gates, former CIA official, Minister of Defense in 2007.
At the end of her book on not only political life of Vladimir Putin, Masha Gessen author thanks all those who helped in writing and whose work she dares not mention them by name for fear it would be subject to repression by the Kremlin regime. Gessen, the courageous Russian journalist, has written a book that does not leave the reader indifferent. This piecemeal work reads like a novel criminology to evoke fear. With the recent events about the annexation of the Crimea in international opinion is still the question of who is Vladimir Putin, who ruled Russia politician since 2000 - as president and prime minister (for 4 years).
For Masha Gessen, who has lived a decade in exile in America, there is no doubt that Putin is "a man without cassandra clare books a face" (this is the title of the book). He represents the type of secret service officer, who hates democracy and transparency. After years of Boris Yeltsin dramatically, which was allowed to enter the country's economy under control and ruthless oligarchs cassandra clare books which last years in office barely bare feet due to illness and consumption of alcohol, the head of state Vladimir came Putin.
Nobody knew this man, who after the dissolution of the Soviet Union had worked alongside cassandra clare books Anatoly Sobçakut, mayor of St. Petersburg, Russian metropolis with a checkered history between East and West. For Putin, the end of the Soviet Union was a tragedy not only because he lost work in East German Leipzig, but also the reputation as the representative of a superpower. In St. Petersburg, Putin first became noticed as civil correct, even oligarch Boris Berezovsky later showed that when he opened a workshop a car in this city, and had helped Putin had refused cassandra clare books to take bribes.
Yeltsin was important for his successor to ensure that they will not be prosecuted. With the help of collaborators and Boris Berezovsky, he had begun to seek a suitable candidate. On July 1, 1999 Berezovsky went to Biarritz cassandra clare books in southwest France, where Putin, now head of the Russian secret service FSB, was passing with family vacations. There Berezovsky Putin made it clear that he had an offer for him and that he ought to meet Yeltsin. A few days later meeting between these two was conducted in Moscow and here on the people around Yeltsin began to prepare the ground for Putin. Masha Gessen writes that almost nobody had abundant information for Putin, Yeltsin's but appreciate the fact that he, as an officer cassandra clare books of the KGB, was loyal to the state.
A few days later Russia was rocked by bomb attacks and explosions in the air throwing cassandra clare books high-rise apartment buildings. Hundreds of people were killed, cassandra clare books thousands injured, millions more live in anxiety. Based on research concludes Gessen's terrific that stood behind attacks Russian secret service FSB. The aim was to blame for the attacks cassandra clare books to dress "Chechen terrorists" and thus create a pretext to launch war against Chechnya. It seemed that everything was coordinated: Yeltsin issued a decree on military engagement in Chechnya (although, according to the Constitution, the Russian army can not fight within the state), while Putin's first appearance on television swore that 'will' cassandra clare books The destroy "terrorists, would" delete "will" annihilate "the" loo ". cassandra clare books
In the years following Putin would become known for his vulgar language. When in 2002, a French journalist during a press conference in Brussels asked Putin about the violation of human rights in Chechnya, he said darkly: "If you definitely want to become a fundamentalist Islamic invite you to come to Moscow . We have good surgeons and they will be circumcised, even so that you will not grow anything. " After U.S. President Barack Obama said the Russian president with one foot in the old world is, with another in the cloud, Putin replied: "We do not open our legs." Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, Putin was shocked with a primitive cassandra clare books joke about the sexual relationship between his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and U.S. Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice.
On May 7, 2000, lawyer Vladimir Putin officially became president of Russia after he managed to demontonte political rivals and be presented to the voters as an uncompromising fighter of terrorists in the Caucasus. During cassandra clare books l
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