Vladimir Putin appeared in person to open the 18-kilometer Kerch Bridge in 2018 as a symbol of the permanence of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The front-page image of this post shows Putin in the driver’s seat of the first truck to cross from the Taman peninsula to Crimea. Russian TV covered it live at the time, helping to make the Kerch bridge a national symbol.
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