SOTT – Viktor Levanov, editor of the pro-Kremlin news site Gosindex, told journalists at a photo studio in downtown Moscow that the birthday book was meant to look at how Putin had “stepped outside the boundaries of personality and became a worldwide cultural phenomenon”. “The use of his image in art, literature and journalism can’t not be noticed. Even the presidential campaign in the United States has recently been unfolding around how candidates relate to Vladimir Putin,” he said. CONTINUE READING