FILE - In this Saturday, June 3, 2017 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Russian writer Daniil Granin, 98, after an awarding ceremony at the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Daniil Granin, a Russian author who wrote a chronicle of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and several widely popular novels, died Tuesday in St. Petersburg at the age of 98. (Alexei Druzhinin/ Pool File Photo via AP)