On Sunday, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected Russia’s President, likely by a margin so large that he’ll have no need to rig the election. By the end of this next term, which ends in 2016, he will have served more than four terms as either president or prime minister and as Russia’s sole de facto leader of the 21st century. In the unlikely event that he would then choose to retire, he would do so arguably as the country’s greatest leader since the magnificent czars of the 17th century, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great.
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