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Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the fall of the Soviet Union as the end of "historical Russia," and revealed for the first time that he moonlighted as a taxi driver during the economic crisis that followed its collapse.
Vladimir Putin has been many things: Russia's prime minister, then its president, then its prime minister again, then its president again; a bareback horse rider and ..