RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN AND PRIME MINISTER ZUBKOV ANNOUNCE THE NEW CABINET
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and members of the government take seats at a new Cabinet meeting in Moscow on September 24, 2007. Putin left his cabinet largely unchanged in a reshuffle on Monday, with the biggest winner Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who was given the additional post of deputy prime minister. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov).
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