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PEAK PUTIN Ten mountaineers scaled a 4,000-meter (13,125-foot) ridge in the southern republic of North Ossetia-Alania to erect a 4-by-6 meter (13-by-20-foot) portrait of the leader. Kazbek Khamitsayev, president of the republic's alpinist federation, says an official request has been lodged to rename the spot Peak Putin. The ex-Soviet Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan beat them to it in 2011, when it gave that name to one of its many mountains. TIME TO RETIRE A small group of people bearing mocking gifts assembled outside the presidential administration. A Facebook page titled "Time For Grandfather to Retire," created ahead of the quickly organized protest in Moscow, said presents for Putin's retirement could include anything, from money to Viagra pills. During the demonstration, many of the present-givers were bundled away by riot police, including one man carrying a pair of pajamas with stripes that made them look like a prison uniform.
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