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By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press
Sun, 10/07/2012 - 11:44pm

MOSCOW (AP) -- Kremlin officials like to insist Russian President Vladimir Putin does not care for big birthday bashes and said he was spending his 60th on Sunday quietly celebrating with close friends and family in his home city, St. Petersburg. However, the president's supporters didn't appear to receive the memo, and so the day saw an unprecedented exhibition of Putin-idolatry reminiscent of some of the world's oddest cults of personality....

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