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294 - Vladimir Putin

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Life and Times of Vladimir Putin

As a teen, Vladimir liked to listen to the Beatles with his friends. He played the accordion, the guitar, and used his department telephone to call friends. During Putin's last year of school, he crammed for the entrance exams at the prestigious Leningrad State University. Spent a summer cut in timber up north, spent two weeks in a student construction camp with the eastern edge of the Black Sea. In the fall of 1970, Putin began studying the law at Leningrad state university.

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