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【Vladimir Putin】

《Going into the political world》

…he played an active role as influential person behind the scene, so they called him a gray cardinal. The cardinal is a significant position in the Rome Catholic of the Christianity, though he wasn’t the cardinal actually, when thinking of his blank expressions, the author said he seems to understand the reason why he was called gray.

When Sobchak was lost in the city mayoral election for St. Petersburg and deposed, shaking off the voice keeping him from going away, Putin retired as well. The attitude on sacrificing itself for the master…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Going to the political world》

The attitude on sacrificing itself for the master is essential credential as spy, and it seems to be advantageous for him when he was called in Moscow and got promoted.

After that, he was called from the Executive Office of President and successes one after another in his life.

《Taking advantage of the resource for a diplomatic policy》

Putin handed in a thesis to the National School of Miner in St. Petersburg and got an academic degree on economy of semi Doctor in 1997.

The semi Doctor is original in Russia alone, its position is in the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking advantage of resource for a diplomatic policy》

The pre Doctor is in the middle of position between the Doctor and the Master.

Though there has been a distrust that the thesis was a plagiarism, for two American specialists who were engaged in Russian problem pointed out an American management scholar announced the thesis and was translated into the Russian and the thesis in question was copied word for word.

Getting the degree on scholar is essential event in his autobiography, but it has never been written, so he doesn’t seem to want to be spoken among others.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking advantage of resource for a diplomatic policy》

Has Putin written the thesis for himself actually? Aside from it, the main point on the thesis was discussed on the significance that abandon resource should be under control by the country, and after that the Putin Government has put it into practice as it was.

《Taking office as the top on the organization of spy》

In 1998, Putin took office as chief on Russian Federal Security Service which changed from KGB. KGB used to be a huge organization which got involved in collecting information and in assassination at the….

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking office at the top on the organization of spy》

KGB used to be a tremendous organization which got involved in collecting information and in assassinating at the time of Soviet Union, but after Soviet collapsed it divided into two, the one is FBS which is the organization on the spy Putin belonged to, and SVR which collects information overseas.

Spies in the Soviet embassy each country all over the world at the time of the Soviet Union have changed into the other spies in the SVR at present. Putin went into the organization on the spay again as its top this time.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking office at the top of organization on spy》

Putin had protected then the Yeltsin President thoroughly as chief on FBS. Yeltsin who supported Putin was watched from the Public Prosecutor General then.

The Public Prosecutor General who thought he wanted to knock Yeltsin from the perch took command on the corruption investigation by the Yeltsin family, but the public broadcasting suddenly broadcast image on voyeurism in which the Public Prosecutor General fooled about two women who seemed to be prostitutes.

After appraising the image, it must be the Public Prosecutor…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking office at the top of organization on spy》

…it must have been the Public Prosecutor General, Putin said like that. Chasing down the one at which they aimed by the scandal on woman. It was the very way on KGB. Who did it concoct? Though it was obvious, Yeltsin had all confidence on Putin by it more and more.

How did Putin take into action as chief in FSB? There is an episode like the next.

A rich man who thought he wanted Putin to be the successor on Yeltsin often visited Putin who was the chief on FBS, but Putin had never told anyone in confidence in the room for…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking office at the top of organization as spy》

…but Putin had never talked with anyone in confidence in the room for the chief. When taking something private, he always used to go out of the room for the chief and to go into the elevator on business purpose and to talk there.

FBS which inherited the tradition from kGB set up bugging device every room in the building, and Putin knew it enough, so he prevented himself from eavesdropping.

《A suspicious bombing incident on the apartment house》

Putin was appointed the first Vice President by Yeltsin in 1999, and on the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Suspicious bombing incident on the apartment house》

…and as on the same day, Yeltsin was dismissed from the Prime Minister, Putin became acting prime minister as he was, and after a week, he took office as the Prime Minister officially. Yeltsin used to make clear Putin was his successor, so it’s the part of the formulation of the structure for Putin. Then an incident indicating Putin was a strong man to the Russian broke out then.

Apartment houses were exploded one after another each place in Russia from August to September in 1999. The Russian thought they were terrorist…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Suspicious bombing incidents on the apartment house》

The Russian thought it was serial terrorist attack by Chechen which had requested being independent from Russia, and anti Chechen sentiment heated up. Putin sent the Russian military force to Chechen with the public opinion as tailwind and suppressed the independent movement by Chechen by oppression thoroughly.

The last one on the series of explosive incident broke out. A resident found an explosive in the bag at an apartment house. Policemen rushed there and the explosion was prevented from breaking out before it happed

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Suspicious bombing incident on the apartment house》

The timer on the explosive was set up to explode am. five thirty in the morning, but it is said that FBS announced instead of the explosive, there was sugar in the bag. Does it mean the exercise by the FBS?

The series of explosive incident which made the popularity on Putin heighten was the self performing by the FBS. Though its suspicion became strong, needless to say, its investigation wasn’t done after that, so it’s truth has never been clear.

KGB used to be good at working a plot, so the suspicion has been left the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Suspicious bombing incident on the apartment house》

…so the suspicion has been left that the series of explosion was done by the plot with the way of KGB, the chance of attacking Chechen was made by it.

Putin succeeded in shutting in Chechen, so his popularity became high, instead of Yeltsin who announced retirement thanks to his health, Putin was appointed the acting President by Yeltsin 1999.

The first thing Putin who became the acting President done was signing on the President decree protecting previous Presidents and their family. Putin made a commitment giving a…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Suspicious bombing incident on the apartment house》

Putin made a commitment giving Yeltsin the privilege of not being arrest, and not prosecution, not to investigate the corruption by Yeltsin and its family. Lots of people thought it’s the reward, in exchange for selecting successor for Yeltsin.

Thus Yeltsin got the ticket for the President at last. The spy in the Soviet Union reached the top on the new Russia.

《Ambition after being the President》

It’s the process that Putin became the President. As yearning for the spy at the time of Soviet Union, and Putin who joined …

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Ambition after being the President》

…Putin who joined in KGB was sent to the former East Germany saw the collapse on the Wall in Berlin and the East Germany disappeared with his own eyes. To make matters worse, the Soviet Union which was his motherland collapsed. It was a serious tragedy for him. He made up his mind not to repeat the tragedy. His resolution decided his action after that.

After returning from the East Germany, Putin took post at St. Petersburg as deputy mayor and moved to the Executive Office of the President from there. He made a progress for the promotion

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Ambition after being the President》

As receiving the confidence from Yeltsin and at last Putin was appointed the acting President from Yeltsin. At the presidential electron, getting the vote of majority, without holding the second ballot, Putin was able to win the election in 2000. He doesn’t try to hide his ambition.

The author said he is going to take up Putin’s ambition after inauguration on the President from now on.

《Putin aims at making Russia be strong》

Putin who reached the President at last aimed at making Russia rebuild. Depriving the power from the regional…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Putin aims at making Russia be strong》

Depriving the power from the regional government gradually and Putin succeeded in winning the right of dismissal on the regional governors. He made a process on centralization.

The national anthem was abolished by Yeltsin who went on trying out of being the Soviet Union, and a patriotic song was adopted for a while as the national anthem, but it had no lyrics at all, so wasn’t established as the national anthem then.

So Putin changed lyrics and made the melody in the nation revive at the time of Soviet Union. It was welcomed by the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Putin aims at making Russia being strong》

It was welcomed by the people who longed for the big country, Soviet, but it was be cautious by other countries around Russia as the one which aimed at reviving Soviet.

After Soviet collapsed, the economy continued to confuse in Russia, but as the price on the crude oil rose and the income on the nation increased and the economy went up gradually
around the time when Putin took became the President.

Though the economic growth was due to the rise on the price of the crude oil, the people thought Putin became the President, so…

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【Vladimir Putin】

…lots of people thought the economy became good because that Putin was inaugurated as President, and approval rate for the President maintained high.

《From origarch to siloviki》

The former Yeltsin President thought he disbanded the Soviet Union which was the socialism nation and tried to reproduce Russia as capitalistic state being based on the market economy and went on privatizing on national companies.

In the process, executives in the national companies tried to privatize the company for almost nothing, and a new industrial conglomerates were formed then. It was…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《From oligarchy to siloviki》

It was called oligarchy 寡頭制. Without fail, putting the naked capitalism into practice, monopoly capital was born. In the nation where the socialism collapsed, ironically the monopoly capitalism was born.

The monopoly capital approaches the politics so as to increase its own profit and strengthens the influence on the politics. It’s a political and economic system what is called the national monopoly capitalism.

Roughly speaking, the typical oligarchy were two in Russia then. It’s a thing like a ruin at the time of Soviet, I’m wondering.

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《From oligarchy to siloviki》

The one was Gasprom group formed by of which center was the former industrial minister in the former Soviet Union. The other was lukoil group of which center were three digging petroleum companies at the time of the Soviet Union.

The new industrial conglomerates became deep on the corrupt relation among statesmen and bureaucratic apparatus from the nation to the region. The rich man who supported Yeltsin got the position of high government official. He had a strong connection with the second daughter of Yeltsin, and was called a businessman….

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【Vladimir Putin】

《From oligarchy to siloviki 》

…and he was called a business man with political contacts, or the one who pulled wires from behind in the political world.

Almost all of the people in Russia were against the corrupt relation between the politics and the new conglomerates. Equality had been made much of until then in the Soviet Union, though it’s just the official stance, but the gap among the society was formed suddenly, and they witnessed the new conglomerates took advantage of their position.

Putin seemed to feel the antipathy from the people like that and took the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《From oligarchy to siloviki》

…and he took position of adversarial stand against the new industrial conglomerates after the inauguration on the President. The prosecution in Russia began to investigate on the Gasprom and lukoil with the suspicion of tax dodging. The rich man who supported Yeltsin and others received deadly blow then.

While Putin confronted with oligarchy, he appointed ones who were from the police or from the military force. It’s siloviki. It means the staff on the ministry of defense force or the official organization keeping peace, or others who used to…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《From oligarchy to siloviki》

…or others who used to belong to the police or the military force.

On the other hand, the new industrial conglomerates which reacted against Putin appeared. The owner of Yukos which was the petroleum company criticized the Putin Government and assisted the opposition political party with the money. It drew anger from Putin.

Its owner was arrested and prosecuted with the suspicion of dodging tax and became guilty. He was imprisoned at the prison in Siberia. After that the petroleum company was disbanded and was absorbed by a national company.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《From oligarchy to siloviki》

Criticism against Putin from each country in Europe and America became strong then. Its owner was permitted to go out of the prison with the act of grace amnesty and to leave Russia and to go to Germany in 2013.

If defying Putin, what happened? It was showed both inside and outside of Russia.

Without disobeying the government, it was given favorable treatment, but even if resisting against the government even a little, it was forced into a tight corner. The business concerning energy is concentrated on on the national companies. It’s the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

It’s the vision planed by Putin

《Having a crushing victory with the Presidential election for the second period》

There was the Presidential election for the second period in 2004, and Putin gained the crushing victory with the overwhelming voter turnout which made up for no less than 70% in the whole.

The regional governments used to be elected by direct election until then, but the President learned to appoint each of them from then, and the centralization became stronger.

The price on the both of crude oil and natural gas hit the roof, and the whole Russia became rich.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Having the crushing victory with the Presidential election for the second period》

On the other hand, the sick economic situation that lots of income on the nation depended on the energetic resource alone continued and it was caused concern among the people for the future.

The price on the crude oil dropped in 2014, the Russian economy suffered from serious damage then actually.

But in the middle of the economic growth, Putin adopted high-handed political tactics gradually in the second period on the Putin Government, and the Putin Government was criticized from each…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Having the crushing victory with the Presidential election for the second period》

…and Putin Government was criticized from each country by Europe and America. Russia changes extremely, lots of people seemed to be worried about like that.

《The ones who criticized Putin were dead one after another mysteriously》

In particular, lots of people were frightened with the incidents in which the ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another.

A news reporter who wrote the article criticizing the Putin Government vigorously was shot to death in his apartment house.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin were dead one after another mysteriously》

The news reporter wrote the article accusing the oppression on residents by the government on pro Russia in Chechen. The police regarded it as assassination done by the six Chechen people who reacted against the article, and all of them were arrested. Though they were prosecuted and the investigation was over, but the six of them were just the perpetrators.

Something mysterious must have been in the background on the assassination, but it has never been clear.

In the next month, the one who…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another》

In the next month, the former staff in KGB who criticized Putin and defected England was dead by poisoned in London.

After Soviet collapsed and KGB transformed into FSB, he used to be a middle level staff in FBS. He opened a press conference with his colleagues in 1998, and announced he was ordered to assassinate from his boss. He was often arrested by FBS after that, without being able to stand the persecution like that any more, he flew from Russia to England in 2000.

When he opened the press…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin dead mysteriously one after another》

When opening the press conference so as to disclose wrongdoing on the FBS, the secretary on FBS used to be Putin then.

The series of explosive incidents on the apartment house breaking out each place in Moscow in 2009, and he accused it was disguised terrorism by the FBS which trying to get the excuse on attacking Chechen. He published a book in 2002, and the accusation was in the book.

The government in Russia assumed that the assassination was done by terrorist group made up with Chechen people…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another》

…and it was a chance to invade Chechen for the military force in Russia, and dubious movement on the staff of the FBS was witnessed at the time of the last terrorism.

It was clear that his existence was eyesore for the Putin Government, but it doesn’t always mean that it proved that the Putin Government involved in his mysterious death, but the poison which was used for him was the radioactive material, polonium 210 which was the special one.

If it weren’t for a large scale of nuclear power facility, it,…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another》

If it weren’t for a large scale of nuclear power facility, it wouldn’t be able to produce the radioactive material. If it hadn’t been for that the national organization involved in it, it would have been impossible to assassinate.

English police identified a former staff in FBS as a suspect, and requested to the Russian government to his extradition, but the Russian Government refused it.

English Government removed four diplomats on the Russian embassy from England as protest, so the Russian Government…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another》

…so the Russian Government expelled four diplomats from Russia, as a result, the relation between Russia and England has grown worse. To our surprise, its suspect ran in for the election on the member of the House Representative in Russia and won the election.

The investigative committee at the Home Ministry in England announced the report that there is a possibility that Putin approved of the assassination.

The one who was assassinated as anti Putin fresh in our mind is the leader in the opposition party

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another》

The leader in the opposition party was appointed the first Deputy President in 1997 when Yeltsin was the President, and he adopted reform line on the economy, but it was refused and he was dismissed in the next year. After that he ran in for the election on the member of the House of Representative and won the election. He aimed at gathering reformist and liberalist.

But the liberalists declined under the Putin Government and he was defeated at the election of the House of Representative, but continued…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The ones who criticized Putin died mysteriously one after another》

…but the he continued to criticized the Putin Government as the leader in the opposition party. He announced that he had evidence the military force in Russia intervened in the civil war in Chechen, and was going to break the news for it in the near future, but immediately after he was assassinated.

Neither there was the freedom of speech nor the freedom of expression at the time of Soviet, and the activity of the speech on the anti government was regulated then. Though they can win the freedom on speech…

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【Vladimir Putin】

Though they can win the freedom on speech or on expression in Russia at present, without taking a risk their life, they can’t win the freedom under the Putin Government.

《What is called ultra c which means prolonged the term》

Putin solidified his political power base with the inauguration on the President second times, he came up with a clever trick at which all of the people were surprised in 2007.

After retiring from the President thanks to the termination on the term on the President, he was going to take office as the Prime Minister and to stay in the political world.

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《What is called ultra c means prolonged the term》

The former President Putin appointed Medvedev as his successor who was the first deputy Prime Minister then in 2007. Medvedev who received the nomination made it clear when he was elected the President he was going to appoint Putin as the Prime Minister. He appealed to succeed to the way which Putin adopted in the Presidential election March in the next year and won the election overwhelmingly.

He was from Lenin Gland at the time of Soviet like Putin, and graduated from the law school at Lenin Gland university like Putin.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《What is called ultra c means prolonged the term》

Supporting Sobchak who was the mayor at St. Petersburg then made him meet with Putin. When moving to Moscow and Putin began to rise the step on politics, Medvedev also followed Putin as faithful junior.

Medvedev contributed to the side of Putin at the Presidential election as the one who charged in the presidential election in 2000. He is the one who Putin can control at will. He was elected the President in the Russian Union in 2008 and appointed Putin as the Prime Minister and it was approved of at the National Assembly.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《What is called an ultra c means prolonged the term》

Lots of anecdotes which were expressed statesmen ironically have been made since the time of the Soviet Union. Lots of masterpieces on the anecdote were born at the time governed by the authoritarian regime.

For example, there is the one in which an American and a person in Soviet Union were proud of their country each other. Which country how much do they have the freedom on speech?

The American said like the next. Our country is the one of freedom, for even if crying our President is a fool in front of the White…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《What is called an ultra c means prolonged the term》

…even if crying our President is a fool in front of the White House, we’ll never be arrested.

The person in the Soviet Union retorted like the next. It’s the same for us. Even if crying your President is a fool in front of the Kremlin, we’ll never be arrested.

But Soviet collapsed and the speech became free in Russia, the masterpiece increased from the anecdotes. When the speech is suppressed, its masterpieces were born easily.

When Medvedev was elected the President, the anecdote like the next was popular then.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《What is called an ultra c means prolonged the terms》

When the speech is oppressed, the masterpiece of the anecdote is born easily, and when being in the time of Putin, the masterpiece has learned to be born again.

When Medvedev took office as President the anecdote became popular like the next.

Why did Putin choose Medvedev as his successor? Medvedev is shorter than Putin.

The height on Medvedev is 162cm. Putin is 168cm. Putin isn’t so tall as man, but Medvedev is shorter than him. Putin who has an inferiority complex of being short could choose him as successor at ease.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《What is called an ultra c means prolonged the terms》

The anecdote means like that.

At any rate, as Medvedev didn’t showed his greed for power, so Putin could choose Medvedev as his successor. When proclaiming being the President for himself, Putin was sure that Medvedev would abdicate the President in favor of Putin.

The term on the President in Russia used to be four years until then, but at the time of Medvedev was the President, the term prolonged to six years from the next Presidential election.

The one which is the most important problem left to Medvedev from…

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The most important problem which Medvedev was left from Putin seemed to prolong the term on the President.

《Being the President again》

As receiving the term on the President was prolonged, Putin ran in the Presidential election in 2012 again, and came back to the position on the President with some 63% percentage of votes.

When being elected as President, he announced his victory at the assembly by his supporters in the square near Kremlin, tears ran down on his cheek.

Though being supported overwhelmingly until the previous year, the movement on anti Putin learned to…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Being the President again》

…the movement on anti Putin learned to reinvigorate and demonstration on anti Putin often had been held in Moscow city, so without having the decisive vote, Putin could take office as President, and he was so relieved that tears ran down on his cheek.

But the percentage of vote was just 47%in Moscow, it didn’t reach the majority there. It was clear that he was supported in the countryside, but he wasn’t in the city.

Putin took office as President officially May in 2012. As the constitution was revised, its term becomes six years, so his term is…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Being the President again》

…so his term on the President was over in 2018, but if he was elected the President again in the next Presidential election, it would be possible for him to stay in the same position until 2024. There is a possibility that he continues to be the President for a long time. Making use of the ultra c of retiring the position of President once, and being able to maintain the long dictatorship under democracy.

《Showing off his masculine for himself》

Producing to show off his masculine for himself, Putin has become the topic of conversation among the…

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《Showing off his masculine for himself》

…Putin has become the topic of conversation among the people often. He continues Judo and it is well known in Japan, except for it, he enjoyed skiing, playing ice hockey seriously and made hism broadcast on TV then.

In summer it’s a season for fishing, and swimming, so he was shirtless and showed off his well masculine body.

Putin visited the forest in the Far East so as to inspect there September in 2008, and an Amur tiger ran away from the trap, but Putin shot it with a tranquilizer gun and made it sleep and saved the staff on…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Showing off his masculine for himself》

…and saved the staff on the national TV who happened to be there then from the tiger. It became the news and was broadcast then. It seemed that the tranquilizer gun was so effective that the tiger was dead soon after that, but before long unexpected thing became clear.

A tame tiger which was kept at the zoo in Khabarovsk disappeared. The caretaker on the tiger gave anesthetic to the tiger and released it into the wood, loading the dice so as that Putin could shoot the tiger with the tranquilizer gun.

Once being given to anesthetic…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Showing off his masculine for himself》

Once being given anesthetic and was shot by the tranquilizer gun, so the tranquilizer was so effective on the tiger that the tiger seemed to be dead.

Though the direction was revealed, when looking at Putin’s masculine body, we can see he continues training without missing regularly. It seems to be a strong leader so as to come true the strong Russia.

The strong leader for the Russian nation is Stalin who was the dictator. He is notorious dictator overseas, but is the symbol for the strong Russia for the old who longed for the old…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Showing off his masculine for himself》

…but Staling is the symbol in the strong Russia for the old who longed for the old and good time.

Putin used to say in his book like the next.

The leader rules over the tremendous territory and has to protect the nation from the enemy both inside and the outside the country, so has to be healthy physically. The leader who is in charge of the national politics has to respond to the demand. Not only Putin but Russian leaders may have have to follow the old tradition in the Russian style.

《The posture of confronting with America》

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《The posture confronting with America》

Cooperative posture with America used to be obvious in the Putin Government at the beginning. After synchronized terrorist attack 9.11, when the U.S. Army attacked Taliban in Afghanistan, Russia allowed it to stay in the Central Asia which used to be the part of Soviet Union in the past.

Though it seemed that Russia had its own situation so It was forced to permit it. Russia had have trouble with the independent movement in Chechen then. As oppressed with such the firm attitude that Russia received criticism from the human rights…

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