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Acting President Vladimir Putin met with NATO Secretary-General George Robertson • President of Russia
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Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the Russian Security Council in the Kremlin December 31. In a broadcast on national television on Friday President Boris Yeltsin
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Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) headed by its President Lord Russell-Johnston • President of Russia
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Acting President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Skomorokha • President of Russia
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