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Police detain a protester during a rally against Vladimir Putin's inauguration in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 7, 2012.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at Bocharov Ruchei in Sochi, Russia, May 17, 2013.
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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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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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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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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.
Sergei Karpukhin / AP
Russian president Vladimir Putin poses near a bare ski slope in Sochi on Feb. 6, 2013.
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during a regional conference of his United Russia party in Cherepovets, Russia, September 5, 2011. (Photo: Alexei Nikolsky / RIA / Reuters)
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during a regional conference of his United Russia party in Cherepovets, Russia, September 5, 2011. (Photo: Alexei Nikolsky / RIA / Reuters)
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A campaign portrait of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin bearing the slogan "For Putin! And That's It!" is hung on a building in Moscow, on March 2, 2012 AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA (Photo credit should read NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin walks after a flight in a deltaplane, Sept. 5, 2012
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during their meeting in Vladivostok, August 23, 2002.
Vladimir Putin's instructional judo dvd.
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Ukrainians holds hold a poster depicting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and a comment reading "No more drinking for Medvedev" in front of the Russian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. The poster, right, reads "All life in Moscow is impregnated with lies."
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Vladimir Putin, left, and Dmitry Medvedev wave to their supporters during a concert to mark presidential elections on Moscow's Red Square, March 2, 2008.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a press conference.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 2004 before a press conference with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at Gottorf castle in Schleswig.
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Vladimir Putin during a Cabinet meeting at the Kremlin
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Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma shake hands
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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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President of Russia Vladimir Putin, June 27, 2012 on a tour of the Middle East.
Alexsey Druginyn / RIA Novosti / Reuters
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.
Alexei Nikolsky / RIA Novosti / Reuters
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits to get registered at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Moscow on Dec. 4, 2011
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, December 8, 2011.
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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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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appears at a United Russia party convention on Sept. 24, 2011, to announce his plans to return to the presidency
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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 attends a judo training session in St. Petersburg on Dec. 22, 2010
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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 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, during an interview with Larry King on Nov. 30, 2010
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Moscow on March 4
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin answers a question in Moscow on Dec. 3, 2009, during his annual televised phone-in show
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Caspian Sea summit in Tehran, Iran.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Viktor Zubkov (R), Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, meet in the Kremlin in Moscow.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accompanied by President Bush at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Monday, July 2.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a Christmas service at the New Jerusalem Monastery in Moscow on January 7, 2007.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush
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Russian President Vladimir Putin lays a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beside the Kremlin in Moscow, May 8, 2007, one day before the country marks the 62nd Anniversary of its Victory in World War II.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Security Council meeting with government members at the Kremlin in Moscow, February 15, 2007.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin casts a cold eye on uncooperative oil companies
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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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Outgoing President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev and his successor Vladimir Putin watch honor guards during a parade of the Kremlin Regiment in Cathedral Square following the inauguration ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace, May 7, 2012.
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Then Russian President Boris Yeltsin speaks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin on Dec. 31, 1999
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina pray during an Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral on April 24, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.
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People rally in support of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, holding flags with his portrait and sign "For Putin" outside the Kremlin in Moscow, March 4, 2012.
Ivan Sekretarev / AP
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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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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News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch meets then Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to St. Petersburg in 2005.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, walks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the Great Hall of the People beside Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 13, 2009
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and First Deputy Prime Minister and presidential candidate Dmitri Medvedev talk during a meeting in Moscow's Kremlin February 28, 2008.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and First Deputy Prime Minister pose for press photographers, December 2007.
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From left: Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, stand with World War II veterans during the annual Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square.
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MARRIED: President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila.
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STRONG MAN: Vladimir Putin
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"POWER BROKER:" Vladimir Putin
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President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Elysee Palace in Paris
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TIME managing editor Richard Stengel interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, left, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in Gorki on Feb. 27
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A Russian cadet takes a snapshot while President Vladimir Putin poses with his comrades in Red Square.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meets with Prime Minster Vladimir Putin (R) outside Moscow in Gorki on May 20, 2009.
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President Bush talks to Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2001
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, watch the military parade to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
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Saudi F-15 fighter jets escort the plane of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Russia's President-elect Dmitry Medvedev (L) applauds Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) during the United Russia party congress in Moscow
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U.S. President Goerge W. Bush meets Russian President Vladimir Putin
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A man sitting inside the Russian parliament building watches President Vladimir Putin during his televised question-and-answer call-in session in Moscow, 18 October 2007.
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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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Russia's president Vladimir Putin takes his oath of office in the Kremlin, on May 7, 2012. In a brief speech, he said Russia was "entering a new phase of national development."
Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP
Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 10, 2011.
Peter the Great: Getty; Putin: Sergei Guneyev for TIME
Photo-illustration incorporating a painting of Peter the Great by Hippolyte Delaroche and a photograph of Vladimir Putin
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Photos: Protesters March on Moscow
Demonstrators braved frigid temperatures to protest Vladimir Putin's efforts to return for a third term as President
Vladimir Putin: Action Figure
The former Russian President shows off some flashy moves during a summertime trip to Siberia
