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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic in Bratislava, Slovakia on Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. Putin gave a glowing assessment Friday of his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, calling it very positive and saying it set an agenda for cooperation in the coming years. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic in Bratislava, Slovakia on Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. Putin gave a glowing assessment Friday of his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, calling it very positive and saying it set an agenda for cooperation in the coming years. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting at the Emergency Ministry in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005. Putin thanked Russian emergency workers Wednesday for their contribution to the Asian tsunami relief effort and questioned other governments' statements about the volume of aid they have provided, saying they may be inflated. (AP Photo/ Ivan Sekretarev )
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the meeting with the members of Federation Council, upper chamber of Russia's Parliament in Moscow's Kremlin, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004. President Vladimir Putin praised lawmakers Tuesday for approving a controversial social reform bill, in a swift, final endorsement of the measure that would end an array of Soviet-era benefits for millions of the country's most vulnerable citizens. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, pool)
** FILE ** Russian President Vladimir Putin seen at a meeting of regional officials in Salekhard, some 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) northeast of Moscow, western Siberia, Wednesday, April 28, 2004. On the eve of his 2000 election, Putin vowed to destroy the oligarchs as a political class. . (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with US President George W. Bush from his vacation home in Sochi on the Black Sea 11 September, 2002. Putin said all of Russia was grieving with America on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with graduates of military academies, universities and institutes in the Moscow Kremlin, 25 June 2001. Putin said today that Russia gives special attention to military construction and reforms in the army and navy, ITAR-Tass news agency reported. AFP PHOTO AP POOL/STR
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin listen to the editors at the meeting with the heads of Russia's leading media outlets in the Kremlin 13 January 2001. Putin defended his government against charges that it was trying to restrict press freedom but said "illegal and extremist ideas" had no place in Russian media. AFP PHOTO POOL ITAR TASS
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during the opening ceremony of the 5th all-Russia Congress of Judges in Moscow, 27 November 2000. Participants in the Congress are to make an evaluation of the judicial reform process, the state of the judicial systimand prospects for its development. AFP PHOTO/POOL/ALEXANDER NEMENOV.
