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HELSINKI – Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Helsinki almost an hour late, tossed off his jacket while still on the tarmac and climbed into a new Russian-made limousine on its first foreign tour.

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Those were the first moments of Putin’s arrival for his much-anticipated summit meeting with Trump – and they underscored his honed ability to maximize the power of the image and the drama of high-profile, made-for-TV political events.

Putin arrived aboard a Russia-made Ilyushin-96 jet from Moscow and headed into Helsinki in his new limousine.

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Russia’s national airline, Aeroflot, and other Russian carriers mostly ditched Russian jets years ago and now fly planes made in the United States by Boeing and in Europe by Airbus. But Putin, who has poured billions of dollars into supporting Russia’s flagging aircraft industry, has stuck with the Ilyushin, a Soviet-era design.