Predicting Russian leaders may hinge on the hair apparent

INTERACTIVE GAME Click here to match the leader with the correct coiffure.    VIDEO CNN's Jonathan Mann looks at the history of Russian leaders and their hair. Real 28K 80K Windows Media 28K 80K

March 28, 2000
Web posted at: 11:21 p.m. EST (0421 GMT)

MOSCOW (CNN) -- Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin said there were patterns to history -- male patterns, perhaps.

The Soviet Union is gone, but the hairlines of Russian leaders tend to advance and recede with seemingly historical inevitability.

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