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Speaking in an interview with state-run Rossiya television on Saturday, the Russian president said he hoped that relations between the Kremlin and the West would normalize by the end of this year. "I believe there is nothing preventing us from improving relations and from normal cooperation," Putin said. "This does not depend on us. Or not on us only. This depends on our counterparts," the president added.

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