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Their summit follows Putin's visit to Germany and France last weekend when German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Putin to allow "democratic diversity" to develop in Russia. Putin has also widely been criticized in the West for his refusal to strongly condemn Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown.
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