Newsweek: Putin rewrites history in bid to reassert control over Russia’s oldest cityBy Newsweek. Published April 22, 2015 at 7:55 am Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on as he attends a meeting of the Victory Organizing Committee at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 17, 2015. Photo by AFPThe city of Derbent has a turbulent history and an increasingly active Islamist element.Read more here