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The Chancellor [Angela Merkel] and the European partners would be well-advised to address the problems in eastern Ukraine more thoroughly. Maybe they have too many domestic problems of their own at the moment.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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