For hundreds of thousands of people across Russia and the former Soviet Union, the person they credit with giving them the power to take control of their lives is not Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin but a tall Swede with an uncanny resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As the chief executive of cosmetics firm Oriflame, Magnus Brannstrom is at the helm of one of the fastest-growing cosmetics companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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