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January 19, 2012. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center) at an informal meeting with football fans in the "Restoran" restaurant. Right - head of the "Volga" football fan club and representative of the hockey fan club "Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod) and "Nizhny Novgorod" basketball club Igor Mironov. Left - representative of the Yaroslavl fan movement Yuri Nosyrin.
- Categories: Sports, Politics
- Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Event date: 19.01.2012
- Date published: 19.01.2012
- Author: Yana Lapikova
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3432x2592px, 3.7Mb