re: 60 minutes is about run a hit piece

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Putin rose to power by using the FSB in the early nineties.

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Late nineties, not early nineties.

In fact, very late '90's as Putin became acting President of Russia when Boris Yeltsin resigned on December 31, 1999 only a few months after Yeltsin had appointed Putin to be Prime Minister in August, 1999.

Putin was elected President of Russia three months later.