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Boris Titov doesn’t want to be president but he’s still taking on Putin

3 February 2018

9:00 AM

3 February 2018

9:00 AM

Boris Titov is running to be president of Russia, but he’s eager to talk himself out of the job. ‘I am not a good politician,’ he says, over breakfast at the Lanesborough hotel in Knightsbridge. ‘To be a president means you need to be wise, a big politician like Thatcher, Deng Xiaoping, Lee Kuan Yew.

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