Mina Moiseevna Yuditskaya, Putin’s former German teacher, recounts her experiences with the most powerful man in Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
In the late 1960s, Mina Moiseevna Yuditskaya was working at a secondary school in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, where she taught a “sporty”, soft-spoken teenage boy “with a shy smile” and tousled blond hair. Four decades later, the then 84-year-old resident of central Tel Aviv met her former pupil again, this time in Jerusalem: she a retired employee of the Israeli air force, he the most powerful man in Russia.
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Source: New Statesman
