A date with the Taj

'It is beautiful. It's good,' was Russian President Vladimir Putin's to-the-point summing up of the Taj Mahal.

The KGB spy-turned-leader and his wife Lyudmila Putina, spent 50 evidently happy minutes at the mausoleum in October 2000.

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