Vladimir Putin

Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin rewrites a banner that reads "Murderer of Chechens - to the court" with a sign "Russia and Chechnya together against terrorism and extremism" to one of protestors, angry over Moscow's assault on Chechnya, whom he encountered during a brief tour with Ukrainian President Kuchma around the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 18, 2000. Putin arrived in Kiev on a two-day official visit, aimed at estabilishing a new era of relations between the two ex-Soviet states. UNIAN photo