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Vladimir Putin speaks with his hand on the Russian Constitution during his inauguration ceremony as the country's president in Moscow on Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)
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Russian riot police disperse protesters demonstrating against President-elect Vladimir Putin in downtown Moscow on Sunday, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin (right) examined a proposed project last year in Tver, one of his country's poorest regions. Residents are becoming increasingly frustrated as government spending on roads and other infrastructure has dried up. (Associated Press)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks to the State Duma, the Russian parliament's lower house, in Moscow on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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The Fitch ratings agency has estimated that President-elect Vladimir Putin's pledges will cost about $160 billion over six years, while state-owned Sberbank has put the figure even higher at $173 billion.
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Demonstrators carry a poster Saturday showing a caricature of Russian Prime Minister and now President-elect Vladimir Putin during a protest in St. Petersburg against Kremlin policies and suspected vote rigging. Mr. Putin made his most lavish election promises about three weeks ahead of the March 4 election. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators protesting the election of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as president hold a placard depicting Czar Ivan the Terrible during a rally in Moscow on Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second from right) confers Monday in Moscow with three of the rivals he defeated in the presidential election a day earlier: Mikhail Prokhorov (left), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (second from left) and Sergei Mironov. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rally March 5, 2012, at the central Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin in Moscow to celebrate Putin's victory in the presidential election. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) and his wife, Lyudmila, leave a polling station in Moscow on March 4, 2012. Mr. Putin was running for his previous job of president. (Associated Press)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at an award presentation ceremony for achievements in culture in Moscow, Saturday, March 3, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Yana Lapikova, Government Press Service)
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expressing certainty that he will return to the presidency of his country after Sunday's election. Mass rallies held in support of his candidacy include some in the crowds who feel forced to attend. (Associated Press)
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an ultraright nationalist, is one of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's three main foes in Sunday's presidential election. (Associated Press)
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Posters with a picture of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, reading "Another 12 years? No, thank you!" lie on the pavement after an unsanctioned opposition rally Tuesday in downtown Moscow. Mr. Putin faces four rivals Sunday in a presidential election. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Vladimir Putin stalks the Tuva region of Siberia in this photo from August 2007. (Associated Press)
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Mikhail Prokhorov, a majority owner of the NBA's New Jersey Nets, is one of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's three main foes in Sunday's presidential election. (Associated Press)
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Gennedy Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader, is Vladimir Putin's closest rival in Sunday's presidential election. (Associated Press)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addresses a rally in his campaign for president at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on Thursday. Tens of thousands marched along the Moscow River and then packed the stadium for the rally. Many appeared to be state employees who attended at the behest of their employers. (Associated Press)
