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Therefore, I do not think we should go only 60 years back but should look deeper, centuries back. Maybe this will give us [Russia and Japan] an opportunity to look at the future from a more remote perspective.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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