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Article: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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Through a complex web combining reformist technocrats and agents of the FSB (the name of a revived KGB of which he was a graduate), PM Putin controls the decision makers for all the sectors. As president from 2000 to May 7, 2008, he had curbed the powers of Russia's 89 governors and local governments, having divided the federation into seven super-regions with each led by a presidential representative. With most Russians under 45 favouring reforms based on political pluralism and a free market, the older ones - the majority in an ageing nation - are satisfied to see central control in resource management maintained by Putin. Communists and nationalists no longer dominate ...
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