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Byline: Christian Caryl and Frank Brown
In the halcyon days when Vladimir Putin visited his aunts and uncles here, the tiny village of Pominovo was a place of hope. "There was a store, a bar, a club," recalls Vladimir Kuvarin, himself once married to a now deceased cousin of the Russian president. "We were clothed and shod and well fed. We were happy here."
That was in the early 1960s. Sixty souls lived in Pominovo then. These days there are 14--and no stores, not even a kiosk. "We lived better under communism," Kuvarin says, glancing around his dying village--and not even trying to conceal his disappointment in its most famous son.
Surely, one ...
Source: HighBeam Research, No More Excuses; Putin now has the power. It's time to deliver on his...