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Citing Age, Daghestan Leader Steps Down
February 16, 2006
Magomedov (left) with President Putin in February 2000 (AFP)
Magomedali Magomedov, who is 75, said President Vladimir Putin accepted his resignation.
He spoke to reporters at the airport in the regional capital, Makhachkala, after arriving from Moscow.
Magomedov has been in effective charge of Daghestan since before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
(AP, Reuters)