Excerpt, "Mr. Putin took the reins of the All-Russia People’s Front at its founding congress on Tuesday. The Front, set up two years ago as a loose umbrella organisation for 2,500 pro-Kremlin groups, will now have a governing body, structure and regional branches. Taking leadership of the People’s Front Mr. Putin has further distanced himself from the ruling party, United Russia, which has largely become discredited as a party of corrupt bureaucracy. Two years ago Mr. Putin handed o...
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