Kemerovo Region Governor Aman Tuleyev (in the photo) meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the cultural center of the West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant company.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) meeting with Kemerovo Region Governor Aman Tuleyev (right) in the cultural center of the West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center) talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (background) talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (foreground) talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right, foreground) talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right, foreground) talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin right, foreground) talking to miners in the Polusukhinskaya mine office building, March 12, 2009.

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March 12, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, background, at a meeting of the Government Commission on Regional Development at the Cultural Center of the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works.

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March 12, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, at a meeting of the Government Commission on Regional Development at the Cultural Center of the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works.

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March 12, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, at a meeting of the Government Commission on Regional Development at the Cultural Center of the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works. Left: First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. Right: Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of the Government Staff Sergei Sobyanin.

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First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, left, and Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of the Government Staff Sergei Sobyanin at a meeting of the Government Commission on Regional Development at the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, visiting the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works in the Zavodskoi district.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, visiting the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works in the Zavodskoi district.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, second right, visiting the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works in the Zavodskoi district.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, foreground right, arriving in Novokuznetsk's Novoilyinsky district to inspect a new apartment received by Yevgeny Denk, an assembly worker at Antonovskaya mine, under a resettlement program.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, foreground left, arriving in Novokuznetsk's Novoilyinsky district to inspect a new apartment received by Yevgeny Denk, an assembly worker at Antonovskaya mine, under a resettlement program.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, Yevgeny Denk, an assembly worker at Antonovskaya mine, and his family who have received a new three-room apartment in Novokuznetsk's Novoilyinsky district.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, foreground right, arriving in Novokuznetsk's Novoilyinsky district to inspect a new apartment received by Yevgeny Denk, an assembly worker at Antonovskaya mine, under a resettlement program.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspecting residential quarters of miners, who talked to him, at their invitation in the Ordzhonikidze district's Baidayevka town.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, inspecting rundown housing in the Ordzhonikidze district's Baidayevka town. Left: Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, inspecting rundown housing in the Ordzhonikidze district's Baidayevka town. Left: Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, foreground, inspecting the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspecting the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reading bulletin board of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, talking to miners at the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, talking to miners at the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, talking to miners at the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, talking to miners at the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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March 12, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, talking to miners at the administrative/service-center facility of Polosukhinskaya mine.

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