Headline: ‘A new kind of czar’: Putin’s path from the KGB to the presidency

The war in Ukraine is the making of one man: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. He is now in his third decade of ruling Russia, time often marked by cooperation with the West, but more often by antagonism and confrontation. Lisa Desjardins charts Putin’s rise and reign.

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