After serving two terms as a democratic but authoritarian president of Russia, Vladimir Putin
a. became director of a private natural gas company
b. returned to be a service officer in the KGB
c. engineered the election of his protégé and became Prime Minister.
d. retired to his palace in Sochi.
e. became a professor of political science at Harvard.
ANSWER:
c
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