Right off the throne room in the Grand Kremlin Palace, the official residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, is a long corridor known as the Malachite foyer, where the walls are adorned with the portraits of Russian kings and conquerors. Yuri the Long-Armed, the warrior prince credited with founding Moscow in the 12th century, hangs across from Peter the Great, who had expanded the Russian empire to Europe's Baltic Sea by the time he died in 1725. What they all had in common was a thirst for expansion, which over the years has made Russia the largest country in the world. And at least by that measure, Putin in 2014 has already earned his own portrait.
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机译：俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京在莫斯科的官邸大克里姆林宫宫殿的宝座旁，是一条长长的走廊，被称为孔雀石门厅，墙壁上装饰着俄罗斯国王和征服者的肖像。长武装的尤里（Yuri the Long-Armed）是12世纪建立莫斯科的勇士王子，与彼得大帝（Peter the Great）相对，后者曾在1725年去世时将俄罗斯帝国扩展到欧洲的波罗的海。他们的共同点是对扩张的渴望，多年来使俄罗斯成为世界上最大的国家。至少以这种方式衡量，普京在2014年已经赢得了自己的画像。
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