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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on at his study in the Moscow Kremlin, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, who meets in Moscow Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has pledged to press Russian authorities to help in the investigation of the poisoning death of a former KGB agent in London. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS/Presidential Press Service, Dmitry Astakhov)