Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Anna Nemtsova: The post-Putin nightmare
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with members of the Russian government at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Oct. 13.
MOSCOW -- Vadim Gronskiy is an engineer who's making money on the side as a taxi driver, and as we were driving down Pokrovka Street listening to the news on the radio, nothing seems out of the ordinary. Then there was a report that Guy Fawkes revelers in Britain had burned an effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin - and not just any effigy, mind you, but one that showed him clad only in a Borat-style bikini.