Russia's Putin: From pariah to Middle East power broker
President Putin has been on a tour of the Middle East this week, taking in Saudi Arabia and the UAE Remember five-year plans? They used to be popular around here. Communist Russia reckoned that in five years, you could transform an economy. Vladimir Putin's Russia has updated the idea. Over the last five years it's not the economy the Kremlin has been expanding: it's Moscow's geo-political clout. Following Russia's annexation of Crimea and its military intervention in eastern Ukraine, Moscow - slapped with Western sanctions - looked ...
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