Vladimir Putin

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Valentina Matviyenko (left), the speaker of Russia's Senate, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a State Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

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A wide-ranging ban on smoking, signed into law by Vladimir Putin, has taken effect in Russia. (Associated Press)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian entrepreneurs while visiting a SIBUR Holding petrochemical plant in Voronezh, 534 km (334 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

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** FILE ** Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to the media after his annual call-in show on Russian television "Conversation With Vladimir Putin" in Moscow on Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) listens to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a signing ceremony after Russia Uzbek talks in Moscow's Kremlin on April 15, 2013. Lavrov said that President Obama’s national security adviser Tom Donilon, who met with Putin o hand him a letter from Obama, said that the U.S. administration wants to overcome the current strain in relations with Russia. (Associated Press)