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Khalid Tlif, a native resident of the Bolshoi Kichmai village near Sochi, Russia, points toward a monument to his Circassian ancestors killed by czarist armies in the Caucasus wars of the 19th century on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Circassians, a Muslim ethnic group native to these lush lands that Putin chose for his Olympic project, were massacred and exiled by czarist troops, persecuted under Stalin and largely ignored in the run-up to the Sochi Games. (AP Photo/Angela Charlton)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, Aisa Achmizov, director of the local folk art museum, shows off traditional smoked cheese made by his Circassian tribe in the village of Bolshoi Kichmai, Russia. Circassians are a Muslim ethnic group who live in villages sprinkled through the Sochi region, just a few dozen kilometers (miles) from where the Winter Olympic games are being played out in gleaming arenas. (AP Photo/Angela Charlton)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, Danilo Berezin, 12, and his 11-year-old friend who gave his name only as Kim, tug their goats home tied to their bicycles as they ride through the mountain village of Bolshoi Kichmai near Sochi, Russia. The Circassians, who live in Bolshoi Kichmai and other villages sprinkled through the Sochi region, are one piece in a patchwork of more than 100 ethnic groups across the Caucasus. That diversity contributes to Russia’s cultural wealth - and has posed challenges to Russian rulers ever since they brought the soaring peaks and seashores of the Caucasus region under the imperial yoke. (AP Photo/Angela Charlton)
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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2013 file photo, legalization of marijuana activists gather outside the Congress building, as senators vote on a law to legalize the drug, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The activist are in support of the Washington and Colorado recreational laws that were passed 2012 to regulate the growth and sale of taxed pot at state-licensed stores. Sales began Jan. 1, 2014 in Colorado, and are due to start later this year in Washington. Twenty states and the District of Columbia also have medical marijuana laws. The. Uruguay's Senate gave final congressional approval Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 to create the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana, an audacious experiment that will have the government oversee production, sales and consumption of a drug illegal almost everywhere else. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)
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Demonstrators hold up their hands during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. Demonstrators are protesting the Wednesday killings of two university students who were shot in different incidents after an anti-government protest demanding the release of student protesters arrested in various parts of the country. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
