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Putin As A Young Man

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April 29, 2009

In March, we blogged about a picture making the rounds that possibly shows a KGB-era Putin as a "tourist" meeting U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1988.

There's another one in a "Wall Street Journal" piece on Putin's past from 2007. It has a great photo of Putin as a KGB recruiter in East Germany in the mid 1980s.

Check it out here.

CORRECTION: I didn't read my colleague's email properly and the "Wall Street Journal" piece wasn't from "today" as I had originally, but from 2007. Fixed in the text. Sorry.

-- Luke Allnutt

Tags: Vladimir Putin , Russia

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by: Balqis from: Sultanate of Oman
April 29, 2009 17:02
There's a wide series of pictures of Putin online since long time and it was easy to conclude that he was not the guy with Reagan, but of course no one bothered to check .
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/5160/Putin/
Nothing great in WSJ photos .

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