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SEVASTOPOL – A ‘Russian Mecca’ ought to be set up in Khersones since the town has become a basis for the consolidation of the Russian statehood, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“A Russian Mecca should be created here. It’s not that Prince Vladimir was baptized here, but after that, it was here that the consolidation of the centralized Russian state began,” Putin said during his meeting with scientists in the Tauric Chersonese (aka Khersones Tavrichesky) National Preserve.