Things you should know about Vladimir Putin

In Transparency International's "corruption perception index" of 2014, Putin's Russia was ranked 136th out of 175 in terms of "least corrupt" nations. That put Russia joint-level in the corruption stakes with Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon and Nigeria with a score of 28 - one less than the year before. Cuba, Bolivia and Burkina Faso were among the nations deemed less corrupt than Russia.