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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the board of trustees in the Moscow State University in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. At a meeting with students in the Moscow State University Putin said that Russia should beef up its presence in the Arctic for both economic and military reasons. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Metzel, Presidential Press Service)
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In this photo provided by Olympictorch2014.com torch bearers hold their torches during the Olympic torch relay in Gorno-Altaysk, 3,641 kilometers (2,262 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. The 65,000-kilometer (40,389-mile) Sochi torch relay, which started on Oct. 7, is the longest in Olympic history. The torch has traveled to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker and has even been flown into space. (AP Photo/Olympictorch2014.com, Nikolay Tangerekov)
