MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin grew wildly popular by making Russians richer every year and by vowing to restore their country's great power status. But now, with the government predicting on Dec. 2 that the battered economy will fall into recession next year, that formula is in jeopardy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin toasts with ambassadors in the Alexander Hall after a ceremony of presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Nov. 19.
