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Pragoshan and the Russian State
CNN's Richard Quest asks how Vladimir Putin became so powerful in Russia. He says the answer is that he was at the center of a mafia syndicate, which has different power structures from state or company hierarchies. Quest goes back to his early life and sees him as a crook who spent 10 years in prison for an armed robbery. "I was kind of completely terrifying than what he did in prison"