FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2007 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds one of the torches produced for the 1980 Moscow Olympics during a visit to the Klimov Aircraft Engines Corporation, which made the torches, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Thirty-four years after those Olympics, Putin has similar ambitions: Proving to the world through the 2014 Sochi games that post-Soviet Russia remains a global player, if no longer a superpower. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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