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In fact, Putin gained widespread support among the Russian people through his decisive and ruthless handling of separatism in the North Caucasus – support that helped persuade then-President Boris Yeltsin to appoint Putin as his successor in 1999.

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Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize.

And maybe because of that, compassion is organic and widespread company-wide.

So this presumably means that these Denisovans had been more widespread in the past, since we don't think that the ancestors of Melanesians were ever in Siberia.

And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread.

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