Putin urges revival of Soviet-era fitness tests

In this late Tuesday, March 12, 2013, photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, meets with relatives of Sergei Mikhalkov, famous poet and author of the words of both the Soviet and the Russian national anthems, on the 100 anniversary of his birth at the family country house in the village of Nikolina Gora outside Moscow. Mikhalkov’s widow Yulia Subbotina is at right. Mikhalkov’s son Nikita and his wife Tatyana are at left. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidenti

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