Vladimir Putin

Russia Depardieu_Lea.jpg

** FILE ** Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second from right) and French actor Gerard Depardieu (left) visit the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)

Russia Putin_Live.jpg

**FILE** Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow on Dec. 20, 2012. (Associated Press/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Russia Putin_Lea.jpg

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual hours-long news conference in Moscow on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia CSTO_Lea.jpg

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes the leaders of member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Moscow on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Yuri Kochetkov, Pool)

PUTIN.jpg

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with members of the Presidential Human Rights Council in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Yuri Kochetkov, Pool)

Russia Defense Shakeu_Lea.jpg

** FILE ** Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov (left), President Vladimir Putin (center) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (bottom right) watch the Victory Day parade in Moscow on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia Nationalist Ho_Lea.jpg

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) walks with religious leaders of various denominations at Red Square in Moscow as they go to place flowers at a statue of Minin and Pozharsky, the leaders of a struggle against foreign invaders in 1612, to mark the National Unity Day on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Russia Putin~s Health_Lea.jpg

Russian President Vladimir Putin flies in a motorized hang glider alongside two Siberian white cranes over Russia's Yamal Peninsula on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)