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Authors: Angus Roxburgh

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President Yeltsin hands Vladimir Putin the seals of office, 31 December 1999. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

President Putin’s inauguration speech, 7 May 2000. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin’s St Petersburg friend Alexei Kudrin became Russia’s most successful finance minister. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin with his early team of reformers, German Gref, Alexei Kudrin and Andrei Illarionov. (Courtesy of RIA Novosti)

 

President George W. Bush with Putin in 2001, when Bush looked into Putin’s eyes and saw his soul. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Bush and Putin became good friends despite serious policy clashes. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov came to trust one another after 9/11. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Tony and Cherie Blair with the Putins at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, March 2000. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin with one of his closest Western allies, Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Putin got on less well with German chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he tried to scare with his dog. (www.kremlin.ru)

 

Victims of the Putin regime?

Oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

 

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya. (Photo by Schreibstube)

 

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