The dissertation was reportedly focused on: a) economic conditions in St. Petersburg with an emphasis on the "importance of natural resources" in future development; b) strategic planning vis-a-vis resource development; and c) improvement of port facilities (for the future transport of domestic oil) (Blazer, 2006, 48)
In fact Putin's mother, Mariya Putin lived in a homeless shelter during that siege, getting by on "a few ounces of bread a day"; in that shelter Putin's older brother (first born to Mariya and Vladimir's father) died of diphtheria. "Once my mother fainted from hunger," Putin explains in the book First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President (Fitzpatrick, 2000, p
That shows affection and independence in this family, in a Cold War moment while living in horrid conditions. Caroline Frost, writing in the BBC, explains that Putin was "Born in Leningrad, six months before the death of Stalin" and that he "experienced a poverty-stricken childhood tempered by a good education" (Frost, 2005)
Putin, now Prime Minister (but suspected of still retaining a great deal of power in Russian government matters) did in fact launch trends that could outlast him; he created what journalist Dale R. Herspring calls "…two items they lacked 10 years ago -- predictability and stability" (Herspring, 2009, p
Rats "scampered on the stairway landings and in the building's narrow courtyard," Streissguth explains (13). The stairway had "a freezing metal handrail" and the stairs "weren't safe either -- there were gaps everywhere" (Shields, et al
The Nazis had Putin's town (Leningrad) surrounded. The Nazis had indeed laid "siege" to Leningrad, "cutting off supplies of food and medicine to citizens" (Streissguth, 2005, 12)
com). An ABC News story (Thompson, 2007) relates how a refugee named Nadezhda Pankova, found Putin's grade book and other school-related materials from his youth in an attic of a house where the Putin family spent summers during Putin's adolescence
com). Irina Titova writes in the Moscow Times (Titova, 2004) that Putin spent the first five years of his life in the five-story yellow building at 12 Baskov Pereulok in what was then Leningrad and today is St
The dissertation was reportedly focused on: a) economic conditions in St. Petersburg with an emphasis on the "importance of natural resources" in future development; b) strategic planning vis-a-vis resource development; and c) improvement of port facilities (for the future transport of domestic oil) (Blazer, 2006, 48)
In fact Putin's mother, Mariya Putin lived in a homeless shelter during that siege, getting by on "a few ounces of bread a day"; in that shelter Putin's older brother (first born to Mariya and Vladimir's father) died of diphtheria. "Once my mother fainted from hunger," Putin explains in the book First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President (Fitzpatrick, 2000, p
That shows affection and independence in this family, in a Cold War moment while living in horrid conditions. Caroline Frost, writing in the BBC, explains that Putin was "Born in Leningrad, six months before the death of Stalin" and that he "experienced a poverty-stricken childhood tempered by a good education" (Frost, 2005)
Putin, now Prime Minister (but suspected of still retaining a great deal of power in Russian government matters) did in fact launch trends that could outlast him; he created what journalist Dale R. Herspring calls "…two items they lacked 10 years ago -- predictability and stability" (Herspring, 2009, p
Rats "scampered on the stairway landings and in the building's narrow courtyard," Streissguth explains (13). The stairway had "a freezing metal handrail" and the stairs "weren't safe either -- there were gaps everywhere" (Shields, et al
The Nazis had Putin's town (Leningrad) surrounded. The Nazis had indeed laid "siege" to Leningrad, "cutting off supplies of food and medicine to citizens" (Streissguth, 2005, 12)
com). An ABC News story (Thompson, 2007) relates how a refugee named Nadezhda Pankova, found Putin's grade book and other school-related materials from his youth in an attic of a house where the Putin family spent summers during Putin's adolescence
com). Irina Titova writes in the Moscow Times (Titova, 2004) that Putin spent the first five years of his life in the five-story yellow building at 12 Baskov Pereulok in what was then Leningrad and today is St