Meet The Poor Italian Architect Who Designed Putin s Palace
October 29, 2015 12:47 GMT
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MOSCOW A mischievous smirk plays on Lanfranco Cirillo s lips as he fields a question about his relationship to the man whose portraits two, to be precise gaze from the walls of his airy, third-floor office in central Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Like all Russians, I know there is a president, Cirillo told RFE/RL recently in his fluent, if often grammatically flawed, Russian. He is a very good man. We as citizens all respect him very much.