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Russia's president Vladimir Putin at talks with U.S. secretary of state John Kerry in Moscow, Russia, on May 8, 2013.

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The U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

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In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is detained in Moscow, May 14, 2013

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In this Monday, April 22, 2013 file photo, opposition activist Konstantin Lebedev charged with instigation of mass riots during last May's rally against Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin, listens to his lawyer in the Moscow City Court before a court session in Moscow, Russia.

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A mother polar bear plays with two of her three cubs at the Moscow Zoo on March 22, 2012.

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speak to the media following a police search in his flat in Moscow, Russia, June 11, 2012. Russian investigators searched the apartments of several protest leaders Monday and called them in for questioning Tuesday, making it difficult if not impossible for them to lead a mass demonstration against President Vladimir Putin planned for the June 12 national holiday.

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A man in Moscow looks at a computer screen displaying an undated picture of the 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19, 2013.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin lies on the snow during a walk with dogs in Moscow Region, March 24, 2013. Putin walked with Bulgarian shepherd and Akita Inu breed of dogs, according to RIA Novosti news agency. Picture taken March 24, 2013

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic during a meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)

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People talk near the entrance to human rights group Memorial's office, in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, March 21, 2013.

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Demonstrators attend a march in Moscow on March 3, 2013 soon after adopted Russian boy Maxim Kuznetsov died while in the care of a U.S. family.

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Angelina Vorontsova, a prize-winning ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet company in Moscow, rehearses for a performance on the upper stage of the Bolshoi Theatre on Feb. 6, 2013.

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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi leaves a news conference in Moscow Feb. 15, 2013.

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This Nov. 4, 2011 file photo released by Moscow's Institute for Medical and Biological Problems Russia, shows researcher Sukhrob Kamolov leaving a set of windowless modules after a grueling 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars.

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Moscow Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Feb. 2010.

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Russian weapons specialist Igor Sutyagin is seen behind bars in Moscow City Court, April 7, 2004.

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Cars are blocked in a traffic jam in the center of Moscow on February 29, 2012.

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Members of the dissident punk collective Pussy Riot plan their next performance at a Moscow hideout. Three members were arrested earlier this year.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses students of Moscow's State University in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. Russia's communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has urged the social media giant's founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead open a research center in Moscow.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses students of Moscow's State University in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. Russia's communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has urged the social media giant's founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead open a research center in Moscow. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses students of Moscow's State University in Moscow, Oct. 2, 2012.

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Students smoke in a street in Moscow October 16, 2012. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev launched a crackdown on smoking on Tuesday with a bill to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes in the world's second largest tobacco market after China.

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People cast their ballots during local elections in the Moscow suburb of Khimki on Oct. 14, 2012.

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Pavel Datsyuk of the CSKA and his teammates celebrate during the game between CSKA Moscow and Avangard Omsk region during the KHL Championship 2012/2013 on Sept. 24, 2012 at the Arena CSKA in Moscow.

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The head of the Syrian delegation to the semi-annual Russian arms bazaar, which is organized by the state weapons and engineering conglomerate Russian Technologies, tries out a new silencer-equipped Kalashnikov assault rifle, the AK-104, at an airfield near the town of Zykovsky, outside Moscow. The weapon is best for "house-to-house combat" and anti-terror raids, explains Andrei Vishnyakov (second from right), a salesman for the Russian weapons manufacturer Izhmash.

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The Moscow skyline, April 18, 2011.

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Moscow riot police detain an opposition leader Alexei Navalny an unsacnctioned anti-Putin opposition rally at the Pushkin Square March 5, 2012 in central Moscow, Russia.

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Red Square, May Day, Moscow, 1947.

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Soviet generals sit beneath a painting of Stalin, Moscow, 1947.

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A civilian parade marches into Red Square, celebrating May Day in Moscow in 1947.

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A Soviet general and a woman stand beside a wall-sized painting of Stalin in Moscow in 1947.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talks to police officers during a visit to Moscow Region Police Department outside Moscow on Jan. 30, 2012

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A scale model of Innograd - Russian Silicon Valley - the Skolkovo Innovation Center, on display in Moscow, December 20, 2010. Russia hopes that the development will help lure and retain technology and business.

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Statue of Lenin on the Moscow canal in Ouglitch, Russia, July 17, 2002.

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Medics wheel a victim of a bomb explosion at Moscow Domodedovo Airport from an emergency vehicle into the N.V. Sklifosovsky Scientific Research Institute of First Aid in Moscow on Jan. 24, 2011

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Protesters throw pieces of snow and ice as they clash with police in central Moscow on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Some hundreds of people gathered in the center of the city to protest the shooting death of a soccer fan Yegor Sviridov, 28, who was killed on Dec. 6, 2010, in an attack on soccer supporters.

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Protesters rally in central Moscow on Oct. 31, 2010. The Russian opposition was given permission to protest on the 31st of the month, a day chosen to echo the 31st article of the Russian constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly

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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, left, talks to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov in Moscow in this Sept. 5, 2009, file photograph

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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov during their meeting in Moscow, Aug. 10, 2010

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, shakes hands with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa during their meeting in the Moscow Kremlin on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa is on a visit to Russia.

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"Display of force" Topol-M ballistic missile drive through Moscow's Red Square in May. Russia is spending billions to modernize its military, depleted since the Cold War

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An employee dismantles a gaming machine at a gambling hall in Moscow. Effective July 1, the government plans to replace the casinos and gambling halls with Las Vegas–style gaming zones in four rarely visited regions considered in need of investment, including one near the North Korean border

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Construction workers walk in Moscow's new financial district, Moscow City

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When John F. Kennedy went eyeball to eyeball with Moscow, he defined cool under fire. The rest of his tenure wasn't always so smooth.

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A Louis Vuitton shop in front of the Mausoleum in an upscale shopping district in Moscow, the capital with the most millionaires in the world. Exclusive products find their way to these newly rich.

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Russian leader Boris Yeltsin holds a megaphone while speaking to crowd in town near Moscow during the 1991 presidential campaign. Yeltsin died monday, April 23, 2007. He was 76.

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Demonstrators in Moscow protest Catholicism?s rising profile

“After surrender, Eisenhower (right) seizes hand of General Susloparov and says, ‘This is a great moment for us all.’ But surrender announcement was held up for Moscow approval.”

"After surrender, Eisenhower (right) seizes hand of General Susloparov and says, 'This is a great moment for us all.' But surrender announcement was held up for Moscow approval."

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attend a meeting of senior military officials in Moscow on Feb. 27, 2013

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Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi speaks during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. movie actor Steven Seagal visit a new sports arena in Moscow, Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

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Nataliya Magnitskaya, mother of Sergei Magnitsky, grieves over her son 's body during his funeral at a cemetery in Moscow, Nov. 20, 2009.

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Pianist Van Cliburn performing during at a concert dedicated to the memory of the victims of the recent Beslan school massacre in Moscow, on Sept. 21, 2004

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People carry posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the words reading "For Russia without Herod!" during a protest rally against the adoption ban in Moscow, Jan. 13, 2013.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, October 1, 2012.

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A general view of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, in seen in session in Moscow on July 10, 2012.

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An anti-Putin symbol is seen on an activist's t-shirt during an anti-government protest in Moscow June 12, 2012

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Police officers take a Pussy Riot supporter into custody in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 17, 2012.

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Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin speaks during a rally in support of Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow on July 22, 2012.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on May 28, 2012. Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow was deeply alarmed by the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla but that it was clear both President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebels were to blame.

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Supporters of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rally at Manezh square outside Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 4, 2012

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin listens during a cabinet meeting in Moscow March 1, 2012.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on military-technological cooperation at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Feb. 27, 2012.

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Demonstrators braving bitterly cold temperatures attend a massive protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule in Moscow on Feb. 4, 2012

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Alexei Navalyn in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow.

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Demonstrators take part in a mass anti-Putin rally on December, 24, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.

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Demonstrators take part in a mass anti-Putin rally on December, 24, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.

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Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, right, speaks at a press conference in Moscow on Dec. 12, 2011, to announce he will run against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 presidential election

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin walks to a podium during a United Russia party congress in Moscow on Nov. 27, 2011

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Russia's jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky attends a court session in Moscow on April 5, 2010

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addresses the United Russia party congress in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addresses an international Arctic conference in Moscow on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, center, speaks during a rally in Moscow on Jan. 31, 2011

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Russian police are seen in front of Domodedovo airport in Moscow, January 24, 2011.

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Medics wheel a victim of a bomb explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo airport January 24, 2011.

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People place flowers near the site of the Jan. 24 blast at Moscow Domodedovo Airport on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in a Moscow courtroom on Dec. 27, 2010, was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars in oil

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Supporters of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky gather outside a Moscow courtroom on Dec. 27, 2010

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A view of the general office of the FSB (KGB) building in Moscow

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Interior troops cordon off the viewers' area at the Moscow Red Square on Saturday, June 12, 2010

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Headquarters of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, on the outskirts of Moscow

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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev creates a video-blog entry at Gorki residence, outside Moscow

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Mourners gather at the Park Kultury subway station in Moscow, site of one of the suicide bombings on March 29, 2010

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Russian riot police run near the Lubyanka metro station in Moscow on March 29, 2010 after two explosions during the early morning rush hour in metro stations