Watch: From secret spy to Russia’s president for 22 years, Vladimir Putin’s formidable rise to power
The BBC takes a look at Vladimir Putin’s life and world-view.
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1A new book recounts how 21-year-old Satyam Gandhi cleared the UPSC examinations on the first try
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2‘Prove we are Bangladeshi’: Assam families protest Supreme Court’s deportation push
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3India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
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4How to move on from feeling stuck in life
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5The lives of a 5th-century philosopher and a modern-day college professor collide in this novel
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6Conversations in a Berlin cafe: As the far-right AfD makes unprecedented gains, Germany loses
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7Why drones are surveying Indian villages
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82025 International Booker Prize: Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi longlisted
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9The futile, five-year struggle to lodge an FIR against Kapil Mishra
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10Rush Hour: Stalin says TN could lose 8 Lok Sabha seats, SC reinstates RJD leader as MLC & more
