Putin visits Solzhenitsyn

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits Alexander Solzhenitsyn, center, in his house in Troitse-Lykovo in the outskirts of Moscow, Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Shown from left in the background are, Solzhenitsyn's sons, Stepan and Yermolai, an unidentified. While celebrating the holiday of Russia's emergence from the crumbling Soviet Union Putin honored the Nobel laureate and longtime exile who documented the murderous Soviet prison camp system, with an award for humanitarian achievement and visited the ailing 88-year-old author, who has not appeared in public in recent years.
11:00 a.m. ET, 6/12/07

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A picture released 13 June 2007 shows Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn listening to Russian President Vladimir Putin at his home in Troitse-Lykovo, outside Moscow, 12 June 2007, as Putin came to visit him, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn could not receive his State Prize during the ceremony in the Kremlin due to illness. Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded a top state honour to ex-dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Tuesday, lauding his devotion to the "fatherland" at a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin. 7:10 a.m. ET, 6/13/07

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