President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second right, foreground) with Rudolf Furmanov (right, foreground), art director of the Andrei Mironov Russian Non-Repertory Theater, while visiting this theater in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) with Rudolf Furmanov, art director of the Andrei Mironov Russian Non-Repertory Theater, while visiting this theater in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) with Rudolf Furmanov, art director of the Andrei Mironov Russian Non-Repertory Theater, while visiting this theater in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin playing piano while visiting the Andrei Mironov Russian Non-Repertory Theater in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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Sergei Ivanov, head of the presidential office, speaking at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg,

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left, foreground) giving RGS Trustees Council membership certificate to Sergei Frank (right), Sovkomflot Director-General, at the grant awarding ceremony while attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Left, background: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left, foreground) giving RGS Trustees Council membership certificate to Gazprom head Aleksei Miller (right) at the grant awarding ceremony while attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Left, background: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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From left: Vladimir Putin, President-Elect, Prime Minister, Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society, and Vladimir Kotlyarov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, attending the grant awarding ceremony at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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TV host Nikolai Drozdov attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg,

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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg.

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Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right: Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society

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Valentina Matviyenko (second left), Federation Council Speaker, and Sergei Ivanov (second right), head of the presidential office, attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second right, background) speaking at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right, background: Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society. Left, background: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaking at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaking at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society, speaking at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaking at the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society, attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg.

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Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society, attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second right) attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right: Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society. Third right: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, background) attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right, background: Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society. Left, background: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center) attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right: Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society. Left: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (third right) attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. From right: Nikolai Kasimov, the first vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society, and Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) meeting with Ivanovo-Voznesensky Nevelsky naval cadet school members of the round-the-world trans-Arctic expedition "Orion", initiated by the Russian Geographical Society, before attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right, background: Oleg Volynkin, head of the round-the-world trans-Arctic expedition "Orion", chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left, background) meeting with Ivanovo-Voznesensky Nevelsky naval cadet school members of the round-the-world trans-Arctic expedition "Orion", initiated by the Russian Geographical Society, before attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. From right, background: Oleg Volynkin, head of the round-the-world trans-Arctic expedition "Orion", chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Russian Geographical Society, and Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) meeting with Ivanovo-Voznesensky Nevelsky naval cadet school members of the round-the-world trans-Arctic expedition "Orion", initiated by the Russian Geographical Society, before attending the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012.

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President-Elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, foreground) to attend the Trustees Council meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in St.Petersburg, April 10, 2012. Right, foreground: Sergei Shoigu, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, president of the Russian Geographical Society. Left, foreground: Goergy Poltavchenko, Governor of St.Petersburg.

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