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...after graduating college in 1975, and - officially, at least - spent most of his KGB career stationed in East Germany monitoring political attitudes there. He returned to Leningrad in 1989, where he took up a position at the State University and developed a close relationship with key reformist figure Anatoly Shobchak, who in 1991 became the city?s mayor and appointed Putin to various key administrative posts. Having proved himself a capable manager in St. Petersburg (Leningrad?s original name, restored after the collapse of communism), he was brought to Moscow in 1996 to serve on Boris Yeltsin?s presidential staff...