President Vladimir Putin (center) attending the dOcument-signing ceremony after name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. Right, foreground: Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller. Left: Novatek Management Baord Head Leonid Mikhelson. The latter two have signed an agreement on joint gas development at the Yamal peninsula.

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President Vladimir Putin (center), Sovkomflot Director-General Sergei Frank (left) and United Ship-Building Corporation President Andrei Dyachkov seen after signing documents on cooperation in ship-building and ice-class supply and maintenance, Janaury 13, 2012.

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President Vladimir Putin (center, background) attending the document-signing ceremony after name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. From left, foreground: Sovkomflot Director-General Sergei Frank and United Ship-Building Corporation President Andrei Dyachkov signing documents on cooperation in ship-building and ice-class supply and maintenance, Janaury 13, 2012.

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President Vladimir Putin (medium ground) attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. Right, foreground: Sovkomflot Director-General Sergei Frank. Right, background: Vitus Bering captain Sergei Zakharov.

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President Vladimir Putin (second left) attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. Left, foreground: Vitus Bering captain Sergei Zakharov.

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President Vladimir Putin (left, foreground) attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013.

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President Vladimir Putin (center) attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. From left, foreground: Sovkomflot Board of Directors Chairman Ilya Klebanov and St.Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko. Right: Vitus Bering captain Sergei Zakharov.

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Father Vitaly, a priest of the Nikolo-Bogoyavlensky Marine Cathedral conducts a ceremony christening the Vitus Bering, a multi-purpose ice-breaker for servicing floating oil rigs.

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President Vladimir Putin attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013.

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President Vladimir Putin (third right) attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. From left, foreground: Sovkomflot Board of Directors Chairman Ilya Klebanov, St.Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, the President's North-Western Federal District Representative Nikolai Vinnichenko and Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov. From right: Sovkomflot Director-General Sergei Frank and Industry-Trade Minister Denis Manturov.

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President Vladimir Putin (second right, foreground) attending the ceremony of name-giving to the multi-purpose Vitus Bering ice-breaking platform supply and stand-by vessel, January 10, 2013. Second left, foreground: Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov. Right, foreground: Industry-Trade Minister Denis Manturov.

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Father Vitaly, near right, a priest of Nikolo-Bogoyavlensky Marine Cathedral, conducts the ceremony of christening the Vitus Bering, a multi-purpose ice-breaker for servicing floating oil rigs. Left: the boat's captain Sergey Zakharov.

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Vitaly, a priest of Nikolo-Bogoyavlensky Marine Cathedral, conducts the ceremony of christening the Vitus Bering, a multi-purpose ice-breaker for servicing floating oil rigs.

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