An insignificant official in the wings of power – first in St. Petersburg, then in the Kremlin: this is how the political elite in turbulent Moscow of the 1990s see the fallen KGB officer Vladimir Putin. What they fail to see is that he silently ascends to the man to whom longtime President Boris Yeltsin wants to leave his legacy – absolute power in what remained of the once mighty Soviet Union. “The new century must open with a new era, the Putin era.”
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Who is Vladimir Putin? Part 2: The phoenix that rose from the ashes of communism. “My son has become a tsar”
