Putin remains popular after decade in Kremlin
China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-10 07:51
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets French GDF Suez's chief executive Gerard Mestrallet (back to camera) in Moscow on July 28, 2009. Putin made the call for a tough Russia after the 2004 Beslan siege, in which 331 children and adults died, saying: "The weak get beaten." AP |
MOSCOW: Vladimir who? When an ailing Boris Yeltsin appointed a shadowy intelligence boss prime minister on August 9, 1999, he hardly seemed the man to shape Russia's post-Soviet destiny.
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