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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2007 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds one of the torches produced for the 1980 Moscow Olympics during a visit to the Klimov Aircraft Engines Corporation, which made the torches, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Thirty-four years after those Olympics, Putin has similar ambitions: Proving to the world through the 2014 Sochi games that post-Soviet Russia remains a global player, if no longer a superpower. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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International Olympic Committee member Princess Anne of Great Britain, left, greets Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, IOC President Thomas Bach, second from right, and Sochi 2014 Olympics President Dmitry Chernyshenko, second from left, at an event welcoming IOC members ahead of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics at the Rus Hotel, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a wall while visiting the Coastal Cluster Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, greets International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at an event welcoming IOC members ahead of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics at the Rus Hotel, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pets a snow leopard cub at the snow leopard sanctuary in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Putin checked in Tuesday at a preserve for endangered snow leopards and visited a group of cubs born last summer in the mountains above the growing torrent of activity in Sochi for the Winter Games. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks while visiting the Coastal Cluster Olympic Village ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with athletes from the United States while visiting the Athletes Village in the Coastal Cluster ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
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Drummers perform as Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at the Olympic Athletes Village in the Coastal Cluster ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
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Russian Federation Chef de Mission Alexander Kravtsov, left, Olympic Village Mayor Elena Isinbaeva, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin applaud during a ceremony at the Coastal Cluster Athletes Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Olympic Village Mayor Elena Isinbaeva while visiting the Coastal Cluster Athletes Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pascal Le Segretain, Pool)
