Putin Launches His Bid for Kremlin With a Hug By Nikolaus von Twickel and Alexander Bratersky The St. Petersburg Times Published: September 28, 2011 (Issue # 1676) IGOR TABAKOV / SPT Putin (l) and Medvedev silhouetted against United Russia’s logo at a pre-election party convention in Luzhniki last Saturday. MOSCOW — It was the hug that […]