Russia

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Britain's Andy Murray returns a shot to Alex Bogomolov Jr., of Russia, at the 2012 US Open Tennis tournament, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Vendors wait for customers at a Moscow market on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, the day on which Russia joined the World Trade Organization. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

A masked supporter of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot waves a feminist flag from a balcony of a building at the court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. A Moscow judge has sentenced each of three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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**FILE** Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) speaks Feb. 8, 2012, with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill during his meeting with Russia's religious leaders in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow. (Associated Press/RIA-Novosti, Yana Lapikova, Government Press Service)

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Campers, who are members of a volunteer security squad, walk through the camp at Lake Seliger in Russia’s Tver region. Camp Seliger was traditionally the home base of pro-Kremlin youth groups. The spirit of rebellion roiling Russia stretches even into the Seliger youth camp, an annual Kremlin-funded event. (Associated Press)

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Russia's Evgeniya Kanaeva performs during the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around qualifications at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Russia's Tatyana Lysenko reacts after winning gold in the women's hammer throw final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Friday, Aug. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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United States boxer Claressa Shields celebrates Aug. 9, 2012, after defeating Russia's Nadezda Torlopova for the women's middleweight 75-kg boxing gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Associated Press)

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Members of an underground sect in Russia's Volga River province of Tatarstan province stand at the gate of a house outside the provincial capital, Kazan, on Aug. 8, 2012. The reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said. (Associated Press)