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This 1969 photo - just made available - shows a young Vladimir Putin,while in 9th grade at a secondary school, dancing with a girl named Elena. Following the shock New Year's Eve resignation of President Boris Yeltsin, Premier Putin - once a KGB agent in Dresden - became acting president of the Russian Federation. He is hotly fancied to win the presidential elections which have been brought forward to March on the back of Russian military policy on Chechnya. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/STR) === ===