June 28, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the Kremlin on Thursday, offering the strongly anti-American leader broad political support and giving his blessing to hefty arms orders and budding oil and gas projects.President Hugo Chavez said proir his trip to Russia that he was considering arms purchases, including submarines and a missile-equipped air defense system.
 

June 22, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with a group of social studies teachers at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow.At the meeting with russian teachers Putin lashed out at some foreign countries for trying to make Russia feel guilty about `black pages` in its history.
 

June 20, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had talks in Kremlin discussing ways to increase cooperation in energy, military and technology as Russia prepares to send the first Malaysian cosmonaut into space in a few months.
 

June 13, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin with russian youth to promote Olympic Games 2014 in russian city of Sochi at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Hundreds of foreign business leaders and potential investors attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
 

June 13, 2007. G8 Summit in the German city of Heiligendamm. US President George Bush(l) and Russian President Vladimir Putin(r)attending the summit.
 

June 01, 2007. Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates visited Russia. Sokratesh had talks with Russian President Putin in Kremlin, Tuesday, May 29th.
 

June 01, 2007. President of Greece Karolos Papoulias and President of Russia Vladimir Putin (r) had talks in Kremlin on Thursday, May 31st.
 

June 01, 2007. At the press conference in Moscow Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi (pictured)rejected all charges in murdering Alexander Litvinenko. Lugovoi linked russian millionaire Boris Berezovsky and British intelligence to Litvinenko`s death in November 2006.
 

May 29, 2007. Head of Ukrainian Supreme Rada Alexander Moroz(l), President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko(c) and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich(r) had a meeting in Kiev to resolve political crisis in Ukraine.
 

May 29, 2007. Independence Day celebrations in Georgia. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with Chief of the United Staff of Georgian Armed Forces colonel Zaza Gogava attending military parade in central Tbilisi.
 

May 25, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin at a two-hour meeting with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.
 

May 24, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Austria. Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Russian President Vladimir Putin (l) while meeting in Vienna May 23, 2007.
 

May 18, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin at Russia-EU Summit at the Volzhsky Utyos resort located between russian towns of Tolyatti and Samara.
 

May 17, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony of signing the Canonical Communion Act between the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
 

May 15, 2007. Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Turkmenistan. Portraits of President Putin and Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in central Ashkhabad.