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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits a University in Novosibirsk, Siberia's cultural and scientific capital, about 2800 kilometers
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008

Open quoteWe will do everything in order to prevent a repetition of the collapses of past years in our country.Close quote

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN,
  • Russian Prime Minister, reassuring a governing-party congress that Russia will weather its current financial crisis without suffering the trauma of past financial collapses in 1991 and 1998
Photo: Alexei Nikolsky / RIA-Novosti / AP | Source: NYT