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On the day when the Russian president marks his 53rd birthday foreign media examines the Putin phenomenon and likens the former KGB spy to James Bond.
“His name is not Pootie-poot, however affectionately President Bush meant it when they last met in Crawford, Texas. It’s Putin. Vladimir Putin. He skis. He tells extra-dry one-liners. He throws people twice his weight in judo. He has extensive training as a secret agent, likes wearing black and has spent the past two days swooshing between high-level London meetings in a bulletproof Mercedes,” The Times wrote on Friday.
