Ravi Shankar ByWhat is common between Bollywood star Salman Khan and Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin? Is Vladimir Putin bluffing? The same man had referred to the USSR’s fall as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” Who is the real Vladimir Putin? Putin biographer Steven Lee Myers writes about a defining moment that sheds light on the president’s psyche in The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin. ALSO READ | Putin says he drove taxi to make ends meet after Soviet fallBorn in Leningrad in October 1952, Vladimir Putin had Communism in his genes.

Source: Indian Express February 13, 2022 02:47 UTC