There’s little hope of an improvement in relations so long as the Russian president’s 20-year reign continues, says former Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh
When Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin prime minister on 9 August 1999, few Russians knew much about him. In early television appearances he came across as mousy, shy and awkward, a man unaccustomed to the limelight from which his previous career in the KGB had shielded him.
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