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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Putin Seeks Solitude Amid Russia's Perfect Storm


Putin Seeks Solitude Amid Russia's Perfect Storm

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Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated his 62nd birthday Tuesday in a peculiar fashion: by himself in the Siberian forests. For the past few days, Putin's spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, has brushed off journalists' questions about why the president decided not to celebrate his birthday in Moscow or do other work as he has in previous years. This is just another odd piece to an increasingly complex puzzle surrounding the stability and future of the Russian president and his government.

Read more: Putin Seeks Solitude Amid Russia's Perfect Storm | Stratfor
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