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John Sweeney has been wanting to meet President Putin for 14 years, ever since the second Chechnya war. He finally succeeds - at a mammoth museum in Siberia - and asks the president about the dead in Ukraine. Martin Vennard travels west of Moscow, including to Borodino, the site of a fierce Napoleonic battle. Attending church and speaking to friends and others, he finds that Russians still resist outsiders as much as when Napoeon marched in, and so they trust Mr Putin, rather than the West, on the situation in Ukraine. (Photo: President Putin being shown the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia: AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)