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In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Mikhail Korhunov stands in front of his paintings, portraits of (from left): Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Russian czar Peter the Great, Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, at the top of Korhunov's house in the village of Severnaya Griva, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Mikhail Korhunov paints the frames of his paintings, portraits of (from left): Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Russian czar Peter the Great, Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, Soviet leader Josef Stalin, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pyotr Stolypin, Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911, at the top of Korhunov's house in the village of Severnaya Griva, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev comments before the Congress of People's Deputies during debate on his proposal to transform the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states in Moscow on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1991. Officials also said that Gorbachev has agreed to independence for the Baltic republics and will issue a formal decree making them the first republics to win such recognition from the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)