Russian President Vladimir Putin and recipients of state awards pose for a family photo in the Moscow Kremlin, Sunday, June 12, 2005. Shown from left are: poet Bella Akhmadulina, opera singer Anna Netrebko, archeologist Natalia Polosmak, mathematical physicist Ludwig Faddeev, Putin, architect-restorer Ninel Kuzmina, space scientists, Valery Kolinko, Maj. Gen. Alexander Kvasnikov and Arkady Vereshkin, archeologist Vyacheslav Molodin. Putin celebrated a national holiday marking Russia's independence with an elaborate Kremlin awards ceremony Sunday. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS/Presidential Press Service)