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While Mr Medvedev appears mostly confined to his Kremlin office, Mr Putin is rushing around the country with the media in tow. He comforts fire victims, upbraids officials - and publicly dictates to the President what should be done about the fires that have killed 40 people and ravaged almost half a million hectares. christian louboutin black Mr Putin held an urgent meeting on Monday with regional governors in Moscow, and reprimanded them for not being ready for the fires. Last Friday, he flew to the Nizhny Novgorod region, where he visited a village that had been reduced to ashes. There, Mr Putin moved from one blackened ruin to another shaking his head. He ended up surrounded by a big group of grieving residents. ''Before winter, all the houses will be standing,'' Mr Putin said, raising his voice to be heard by the entire crowd - and by cameras of all the main television networks who broadcast the meeting across Russia. christian louboutin ''Do you promise us?'' a woman asked. ''Yes, I promise,'' Mr Putin replied, adding that each family member will receive more than $US6000 ($6580) in compensation. Mr Putin hugged and kissed one woman; she kissed him back. In the next televised report, Mr Putin is standing in a picturesque birch grove, his cell phone to his ear as he talks to Mr Medvedev, who is sitting at his Kremlin desk, and takes orders from Mr Putin about how to manage the fires. Lilia Shevtsova, a Kremlin expert at the Moscow Carnegie Centre, said the conversation was about more than fire relief. coach pureses ''It is clear to me that Putin started his presidential campaign,'' she said. ''He needs to unequivocally indicate to the country that he is in control, and not Medvedev - whom Putin never counted for much, anyway.'' Even his party with the Russian spies expelled from the United States earlier in July, where he sang songs with the failed agents, was vintage Putin, said Dr Shevtsova. coach bags

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