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  • "This was a man who loved Russia, who loved people," St Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko said earlier, also calling Sobchak a "man of conscience who knew no fear."

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • "This was a man who loved Russia, who loved people," St Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko said earlier, also calling Sobchak a "man of conscience who knew no fear."

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • During his last year working for Sobchak, Putin carried a gun.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Sobchak responded with the same unprintable expression he had used when Putin confessed his KGB affiliation.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The City Council investigated and recommended that Sobchak fire Putin.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • He kept the elegant notions he had learned from Sobchak about the rule of law, the sovereignty of constitutions.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • To staff his office, Sobchak looked to his old university.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • To which Sobchak responded with an unprintable expression that conveyed a certain lack of concern about what the organs of state security might think.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Anatoly Sobchak, an LGU law professor who had become a telegenic democrat, was invited to head the city government.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Why would Sobchak, a leading liberal known to loathe the secret police, turn to a KGB colonel to run his administration?

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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