nothing else but a nice, charming guy. >> a nice charming guy, lacking polish and driving a car like a tin can. >> translator: that car had no muffler. you know what a muffler is? it made this sound, you know. >> putin's car wasn't sleek like this one from golden eye, and putin was no james bond. but he was plenty tough. one evening a drunk student with a cigarette stopped putin and asked for a light. >> translator: putin said, i won't give it to you. the student grabbed him. the next moment i saw the guy's socks in the air. i don't know what technique he used, i just saw the guy's legs in the air. >> somewhere under the brusk exterior was the discipline, the