Vladimir Putin

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In this photo taken Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Orenburg region governor Yuri Berg in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. Russia will only deliver gas to Ukraine only if it pays in advance starting from next month, President Vladimir Putin said in a letter released Thursday, raising the pressure on the struggling neighbor. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

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** FILE ** In this Monday, May 12, 2014, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Interior Ministry Troops Commander Nikolai Rogozhkin, appointed as the president’s representative in the Siberian Federal District, in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin scored six goals and dished five assists Saturday to help his team win a hockey match Saturday. With him on the ice at a Sochi arena are Russian hockey stars. (Associated Press photographs)

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A woman, wearing a traditional Ukrainian wreath of flowers on her head, holds up a sign with President Vladimir Putin’s picture and the words: “Stop lying!” during a rally against pro-Putin media in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 13, 2014. More than 10,000 people have turned out in Moscow for an anti-Kremlin rally to denounce Russian state television’s news coverage, particularly of the crisis in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)