Asia’s dangerous new arms race
Russia’s war and China’s military build-up are provoking an unprecedented change in Japan’s approach to its defence.
ByVladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
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