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Parsing Putin: Complex Russian leader emerges in `Putin's Russia'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Carlin Romano
`Putin's Russia' by Lilia Shevtsova; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ($19.95)
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In December 1999, ailing and serially befuddled Russian President Boris Yeltsin started seriously talking to his little-known, recently appointed prime minister, Vladimir Putin, about taking over as "acting president." Under that plan, Putin would then run for president himself.
According to Yeltsin's memoir, Putin, the shy, 45-year-old former KGB colonel and ex-aide to liberal St. Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak who had come to Moscow only two years before, replied: "You know, Boris Nikolayevich, to tell the truth, I'm not sure whether I'm prepared for this, whether I want it, because it is a rather difficult life."
Putin's diffidence in a face-to-face meeting with Yeltsin _ an unpredictable democrat/autocrat notorious for firing or destroying anyone who coveted his power (he had seven prime ministers in eight years) _ made Putin only more attractive as Yeltsin's heir.
The Russian leader talking shop this weekend with President Bush at Camp David can hardly be interpreted so simply, Lilia Shevtsova makes clear in this welcome, lucid overview of his nearly ...
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