Referencing the Russian President has never been easier.
Vladimir Putin’s entire oeuvre of speeches and addresses over a 15-year career has been collected in a new three-volume book that premiered at a Moscow book fair over the weekend.
The book, titled Direct Speech, and issued by the publishing house Zvonnitsa, claimed to be a “portrait of an era” with Putin cast as a central figure in the history of the 21st century “equal to the likes of Charles de Gaulle or Fidel Castro,” according to the book’s publisher Georgy Zaitsev.
The book is “needed by today’s Russians — governors, and …read more
Source: Voice of America
