No sooner had Yeltsin stepped down than Putin repeated the vow to rebuild his country's badly withered military machine. "Our country Russia was a great, powerful, strong state," he declared in January 2000, "and it is clear that this is not possible if we do not have strong armed forces, powerful armed forces."
Here, please go to this link to read more about Putin:
http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-czar-rises-in-russia.html
2006-12-14
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