Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a tranquilizer gun in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. On Sunday Putin took part in the national program for preserving the population of the Ussuri tiger conducted by researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. AP Photo logo AP Photo 17 months ago

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a tranquilizer gun in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. On Sunday Putin took part in the national program for preserving the population of the Ussuri tiger conducted by researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

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  9. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, centre, attends a meeting with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. From right, Presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich, Dmitry Medvedev, and Presidential aide Dzhakhan Pollyieva.
  10. FILE -- In this Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, file photo Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a head of the tranquilized five-year-old Ussuri tiger as a researcher puts a collar with a satellite tracker on the animal in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East. Putin's Siberian tigress cannot be traced anymore _ as other giant felines of her rare breed may approach extinction, a leading animal-protection group said. Russia's Prime Minister placed a tracking collar on a female Siberian tiger in August 2008, and Moscow pledged to hold a "tiger summit" next September to help double the global tiger population.
  11. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the extraordinary convention of the Russian Geographical Society in the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.
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