1. He never brought women to the dacha.

2. His dacha was home to him.

3. Many had the means to purchase a dacha in the countryside.

4. His dacha was in the woods on the banks of the Moscova river.

5. The family's dacha is near Pavlovo Pasad, in the Moscow region, just 68 kilometers away from Russia's capital.

6. As Putin tells us at the dacha, as a member of the losing team, he was suddenly untouchable.

7. Putin met the group at his dacha in Novo-Ogaryovo, among pine and birch forests just outside Moscow.

8. Wildflowers add color to a dacha, or country home, in Mandrogy, between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

9. She looked wonderfully healthy and alert, as if she had just returned from a dacha.

10. Thoughts of failure preoccupied him on the drive out to his dacha.

11. So on a snowy Moscow day, our team left the city for the drive to Putin's presidential dacha.

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12. This may explain why there is so little visible security at Putin's dacha, Novo-Ogarevo, the grand Russian presidential retreat set inside a birch- and fir-forested compound west of Moscow.

13. What was it that lifted him to power, and to the dacha in Novo-Ogarevo?

14. Many tycoons live in the wealthy ghetto of Rublyovskoye Shosse, near the Putin's dacha on the edge of Moscow, where Lamborghini showrooms jostle alongside Gucci boutiques.