World Bank President James Wolfensohn also received an invitation, as did a host of other dignitaries, including the current governor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Yakovlev, and a possible rival for the post, Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko.
Born in St Petersburg in 1952, Vladimir Putin began his career in the KGB, the secret police.
U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St.
He will also hold a meeting with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, in St Petersburg.
This coalition of two separate movements, Fatherland and All Russia, was formed in 1999 by the mayors of Moscow and St Petersburg, Yury Luzhkov and Vladimir Yakovlev.
Valentina Matviyenko, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former governor of St.
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Not all have chosen happily: a petition to recall Vladimir Yakovlev, the ineffectual governor of St Petersburg, attracted some 250, 000 signatures last month.
The nationalities minister will be Vladimir Yakovlev, an ex-governor of St Petersburg and one of Mr Putin's political foes.
Ella Paneyakh, a sociologist and legal expert at Russia's European University in St Petersburg, said the case illustrated how in President Vladimir Putin's Russia "they are getting very creative, interpreting the law very literally, in a way which does not correspond to the spirit of the law".
He has backed at least a dozen winning candidates in recent regional elections, including Vladimir Yakovlev, mayor of Russia's second city, St Petersburg.
However, Mr Bush appears to have healed the divisions with Russian President Vladimir Putin - another leading opponent of the war - during their talks in St Petersburg earlier on Sunday.
Vladimir lives in Mexico with his mother, Veronica Mejia Franco, 32, formerly a housekeeper at a St.
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