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Russia had become “strong and independent” under Yeltsin, he said, a statement he has contradicted repeatedly over the next quarter-century, including in his annual press conference and Q&A session last month, when he claimed that Russia in 2000 had been headed for “a complete, total loss of our sovereignty” and that he had pulled it “back from the edge of the abyss.” In the 1999 address, Putin also said that post-Soviet Russia “has opted for democracy and reform,” and his main focus in...