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"He [the head of state] traditionally celebrates it [the New Year] at home, together with family, close relatives and friends," presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Sunday.
This holiday is the family one for Putin, "with the exception of cases when it is directly related to work," Peskov said. "It will be celebrated in a traditional way this year also," he added.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "will welcome the New Year in the bosom of his family and friends," press secretary to the prime minister Natalia Timakova told TASS. She does not rule out that Medvedev "will go skiing in Sochi" during holidays.
But the thing is, that western media don't accept he is a normal man, thrown into an extraordinary position,by what can only be described as a fluke of circumstance.
Yeltsin in his final drunken speech to the Russian people left the future in the hands of Putin, an unknown, a novice on world the political circus.
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Wow! Have the Western elites and political circus had a wake up call the likes of they have never seen before, personally I hope this continues.