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Medvedev Drops in on War Veteran

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Medvedev Drops in on War Veteran


22.04.2010

Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev visited a Great Patriotic War veteran named Vladimir Zhukovsky living in the Moscow region, the Voice of Russia reports. Medvedev came to look at a new flat provided for the veteran by the state under a presidential decree. Vladimir showed the president around and told about his war service. He became a partisan when he was 15 and then joined the regular army.

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