It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

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The Chechen leader has made similar public statements in the past about stepping down, but has always remained in power.