Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to selected media from Group of Eight countries in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow as Stefan Aust (R), editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel listens to him in this photo released June 4, 2007. Putin set the stage for a frosty G8 summit this week by launching broadsides at the West over missile defence, Kosovo and democratic standards. [Reuters]

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