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20, 2013  Putin celebrates Russia Day with State Prize ceremony
at Kremlin  Wednesday, June 13, 2007  An elderly woman wrapping
herself in a modern Russian national flag stood near various
flags of Russia, the white-blue-red, in use from 1699 to 1917
and from 1991 to the present; the white-yellow-black, of Czarist
Russia, in use from 1858 to 1883; and the red flag of the Soviet
Union during the Day of Russia holiday celebration Tuesday in
downtown Moscow. (Misha Japaridze ~ Associated Press) Nobel
laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was given a prize for
"humanitarian activity."  MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin
underscored the importance of moral values and military might
Tuesday, honoring Russians from a frail-looking Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, who documented the Soviet Union's brutality, to
men who designed its nuclear-armed submarines.  The pomp-filled
State Prize ceremony in a Kremlin hall was the elaborate
centerpiece for nationwide festivities on