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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media during his trip to Russia's far eastern port of Vladivostok on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin urged President Obama on Saturday not to rush into a decision on striking Syria, but to consider whether strikes would help end the violence and be worth the civilian casualties they would inevitably cause. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a glass of champagne during a credentials ceremony for foreign ambassadors in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the International Arctic Forum in Salekhard, a city 1,950 km (about 1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow just above the Arctic Circle, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Putin said Wednesday that Greenpeace activists apprehended after trying to scale an offshore oil platform aren't pirates, but defended the detention saying Coast Guard officers had no way of knowing who they were.(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)
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In this sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
