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This newspaper is no fan of Mr Putin, and has warned Western companies of the perils of dealing with him.

我们这份杂志可不是普京的粉丝，我们已经告诫过西方公司与普京打交道的危险。

Putin returned to the surface after four and a half hours looking a little groggy, according to witnesses at the lakeside.

据岸上的目击者说，普京在潜水四个半小时后回到了地面上，过程中他看上去有些许脚步不稳。

Instead, he complemented Putin on his eye for detail and said he would correct the mistake.

相反，他站在普京的角度补充了作品缺陷方面的细节，并表示将纠正错误。

In speeches, he sounds as if he wants to steer Russia away from the Putin model.

在演讲中，他发出的声音似乎令人感到他想要操纵俄国离开普京的道路。

I wasn't too concerned about that; Putin probably wanted to wait to see how the U. S. election turned out.

我对此并不是太在意，因为普京很可能在等待美国大选的结果。

Medvedev showed his willingness to continue to perform this role should Mr. Putin choose to leave him in the Kremlin.

由此看出，如果普京先生愿意将他留在克里姆林宫里，梅德韦杰夫总统愿意继续做这个“代言人”。

It's no shock, then, that, having carefully weighed up the options, Putin decided to choose himself to be Russia's next president.

普金在权衡各种选择后决定自己做下一届俄罗斯总统，这不是很有震撼力的消息。

For the next day, in a final surprise, Mr Medvedev invited Mr Putin to be his prime minister.

因为到了第二天，最终让人吃惊的则是梅德韦捷夫邀请普京做他的总理。

Mr. Putin seemed to be suggesting that if he ran again, it would be as proper because he would be complying with Russia's Constitution.

普京先生似乎在暗示，他如果再次参加选举也并无不妥，因为他将遵照俄罗斯宪法行事。

Dmitry Medvedev, the current occupant of the Kremlin, said he wanted Mr Putin to run for president next year.

梅德韦杰夫，现在的克林姆林宫的主人，表示他想要普京先生参加下任总统的竞选。

She was the latest human-rights campaigner of international renown to be gunned down in Putin's Russia.

她是最新一位在普京的俄罗斯死于枪杀的富有国际名望的人权斗士。

Moreover, Putin and Zuma as former communist secret policemen seem to have retained a particular fondness for spies.

而且，作为前共产党特工，普京和祖马似乎都保留了对间谍的特殊偏好。

"Putin loves to pull a rabbit out of the hat - and then it turns out to be a possum, " says one western political analyst.

一位西方政治分析人士表示：“普京喜欢从帽子中拎出一只兔子——然后，它会变成一只负鼠。”

Mr. Putin 'needs there to be a multiplicity of oligarchs for him to keep power, ' said one person close to Rusal.

一位了解UCRusal公司情况的人士说，普京“出于保持权力的考虑，需要各式各样的寡头”。

In a speech earlier this week, President Putin said the anti-missile plan could turn the European continent into a "powder keg. "

在本周早前发表的一项演说中，普京总统称反导弹计划将把欧洲大陆变成一个“火药桶。”

And when Mr Putin visited Germany in October, Ms Merkel did not hesitate to address the murder of a Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya.

普京在10月访问德国，默克尔毫不踌躇，向他提出了记者安娜•波利特科夫斯卡娅（AnnaPolitkovskaya）的谋杀案。

You don't have to be a Putin apologist to understand that this is not an adequate explanation.

就算你不是普京的支持者，你也可以明白这种理由是不充分的。

But even if it does not, real power will remain in Mr Putin's hands as he is the focus of almost all his administration's public popularity.

然而，即便没有修改宪法，实际权力仍将掌握在普京手中，因为他是现任政府几乎所有公众的焦点。

Indeed, less than two weeks later, Mr. Putin honored Mr. Surkov with a medal for service to Russia. And with that, Mr.

事实上，不到两个星期，普京就因苏尔科夫为俄罗斯所做的服务而授予他一枚勋章。

Mr Putin seems to regard foreign debt as a sort of national insult, and is paying most of it off.

普京似乎将外债视为国耻，因此正在偿还其中的大半。