Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
Russian president Vladimir Putin has appointed his ex-bodyguard, Alexander Kurenkov, to become Russia’s new “Emergencies Minister” after the last person to hold the office fell 90 feet to his death down a waterfall, the Daily Mail reports.
Nicknamed “the man without a face,” little is known about Kurenkov’s past and background.
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