North Ossetia president Taimuraz Mamsurov attends a meeting of the Russian Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House, January 21, 2011.

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Alexander Khloponin, Russian deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, at a meeting of the Government Commission on the Socio-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District, chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House.

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Russian Deputy Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, left, and Stavropol Region Governor Valery Gayevsky attend a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House, January 21, 2011.

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Andrei Sharov, director of the Russian Economic Development Ministry's department for small and medium businesses development, attending a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House, January 21, 2011.

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January 21, 2011. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov at a meeting of the Government Commission on the Socio-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District, chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House.

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Andrei Sharov (left), director of the Russian Economic Development Ministry's department for small and medium businesses development, and Vnesheconombank chairman Vladimir Dmitriyev attend a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House, January 21, 2011.

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Kabardino-Balkarian president Arsen Kanokov, left, and Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov attend a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House, January 21, 2011.

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Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin, left, and Dagestan's president Magomedsalam Magomedov attend a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House, January 21, 2011.

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January 21, 2011. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov at a meeting of the Government Commission on the Socio-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District, chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Government House.

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January 21, 2011. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, background center, at a meeting of the Government Commission on the Socio-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District, at the Government House.

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January 21, 2011. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Government Commission on the Socio-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District, at the Government House.

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