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April 7, 2008 ¹24

Politics
“I’m a demob” said Vladimir Putin in Bucharest
Vladimir Putin got applause twice during his only appearance before the press in Bucharest. First it was when he appeared at the press conference instead of the supposed-to-come Russian foreign minister Lavrov. And the second time it was when answering to the question about his impressions as of an outgoing president, he said he can’t help waiting for demob. Then he thanked the press for covering his labour in a hard but glorious epoch of Russia’s revival. According to him, the objective picturing Russia by the journalists influenced positively the perception of Russia in the world. Probably, his gratitude was intended for the Kremlin’s pool as the perception of Russia by the big western world leaves much to be desired at the end of the Putin’s office.
Alexander Mineev, our correspondent in Brussels
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