Brief article has image of Russian president around it (3,2,3,7)
I believe the answer is:
put in the picture
'brief' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'article has image of russian president around it' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'article' could be 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech) and 'the' is found within the answer.
'image' could be 'picture' (picture is a kind of image) and 'picture' is found within the answer.
'president' could be 'putin' (I have seen 'Russian president ' mean 'put in' so perhaps 'president' could also mean 'put in') and 'putin' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for put in the picture that I've seen before include "cast" , "Told" , "Informed" , "Brief" .)