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From Wikipedia:
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Garry Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров; [ˈgarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf], Armenian: Գարի Կասպարով) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union; now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded to have been the greatest player of all time, former World Chess Champion, writer and political activist. |
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn]) (born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian politician who was the 2nd President of the Russian Federation (from 2000 to 2008) and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and then won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term lasting until May 7, 2008.
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Bush vs Putin, 
