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All shut down. >> i wonder if you look at the big picture and you think cutting off russia's ties or the access to u.s. airspace, you go back to the u.n. resolution condemning russia and the congressional condemnation. is it all symbolic for putin because there he sits still running the war machine, apparently seeming like this actions in all the rest of that doesn't bother him. >> you make a good point and brian was telling us his family came through the siege of leningrad before he was born. i think putin's battle fixated and wrapped himself up in this and i really think right now the only t...

Debiting consequences to the economy and the well-being of its citizens. out of nowhere, in 2000, trampolines to the post of president was vladimir putin. but he was a nobody. how did he rise to power? putin's story begins in 1952. only child born in st. petersburg. his parents were factory workers. putin attended leningrad state university and studied law. 1975, he'd be an intelligence officer for the kgb. when the soviet union collapsed, he retired and returned home to work in local politics, becoming the mayor's head of external relations and first deputy mayor. when the liberal politician ...