MOSCOW — With President Vladimir Putin heading to China this weekend, officials in both countries extoll a blossoming "strategic partnership" between the two former communist rivals.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attend a wreath-laying ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi German invasion, by the Kremlin walls in Moscow on June 22.
