WASHINGTON -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is not mad, as some in the West may think, but rather corrupted by power and divorced from reality, historian Niall Ferguson told Nikkei in a recent interview.
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Billboards featuring portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Simferopol, Crimea. One board reads: "Russia doesn't start wars, Russia ends them." © Reuters
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