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11:26 AM, Mar 16, 2009 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

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Did Vladimir Putin trail Ronald Reagan during one of our fortieth president's trips to the Soviet Union? Some claim the blond man with camera on the left-hand side of this photo is actually a much younger Russian president. Pete Souza, the White House photographer who took the photo, says he has subsequently confirmed that the man was Putin. What do you think?

(A tip of the homburg to Foreign Policy's Passport blog.)

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