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Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective, flexibly responding to changes inside and outside the country - that is what Russia needs.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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