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Co-pilot Putin helps put out Russia’s wildfires (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits in the co-pilot's seat at a cockpit of an Emergencies Ministry's Beriev Be-200 amphibian multirole jet flying drop water over a a forest fires in Ryazan region, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Putin joined the crew of a firefighting airplane Tuesday and helped put out two of the hundreds of wildfires that are sweeping western Russia and cloaking Moscow in suffocating smog.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into a firefighting plane Tuesday and dumped water on two of the hundreds of wildfires sweeping through western Russia and cloaking Moscow in a suffocating smog.


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