Part 1 of our "20 Years of Putin" special report focuses on his rise, early years and escalating antagonism with the West.
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"He’s able to be in your eyes what you want him to be...I wasn’t the only person who was deceived by him.”
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"My strongest memory was that he made no memory ... He made virtually no impression back then.” — Michael @McFaul, who crossed paths with Putin in the 1990s.
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Choosing not to diversify Russia's economy left it essentially frozen in time.
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“What struck people and inspired people to hope was that Putin was never trained as a politician" Trenin said.
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