Putin takes the hard line in CTV exclusive

My colleague Ellen Pinchuk, CTV's Moscow Bureau Chief, scored a rare interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a CTV exclusive. Packaged excerpts of this interview ran last night on our national newscast but the entire 28-minute interview, in three segments is available online.
Putin gave this interview in advance of the G8 summit. Ellen and I will be covering this summit for CTV. I will be travelling with the Prime Minister tomorrow when he heads to the United Kingdom to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Queen ahead of the summit which begins this weekend in St. Petersburg.
After the summit, the PM will travel to France where he will tour the Vimy Ridge Memorial Site before separate meetings with French President Jacques Chirac and French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
The Canadian government has prepared a backgrounder on this trip.

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