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Credit: Reuters/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Pool By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW | Tue May 15, 2012 4:40pm EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin won praise from leaders of former Soviet republics on Tuesday and called for closer integration among the now-independent states once ruled by Moscow. He pointedly decided to snub a G8 summit in the United States this weekend and instead made the one-day conference of post-Soviet leaders the first meeting with foreign heads of state of his new presidential term. Putin, who once called the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century", called for more robust cooperation among members of regional alliances. At meetings of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Collective Security Treaty Organisation, two organizations that group much of former the USSR, Putin hosted his first major event as president, taking advice from some of the longest serving autocrats of the post-Soviet world. "Some people, I think, don't quite understand that a period of change is taking place in the world, and Russia should have a status the others have to reckon with," Uzbek President Islam Karimov told Putin in the Kremlin. Putin has been facing the biggest protests against his 12 years in power, culminating in clashes with police the day before his inauguration. TURBULENCE Karimov, who has ruled for more than 20 years, said strong leaders like Putin were needed in turbulent times. Witnesses say hundreds were killed in Uzbekistan in 2005 during a government crackdown on an uprising. "When hard times are coming, it can happen that any political disturbances, and any election is a disturbance, can unfold not quite in line with the planned scenario," Karimov told Putin. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, also in power for over 20 years, evoked memories of the Soviet past, mentioning such mega-projects as the Baikal Amur Mainline railroad. "I remember the Soviet times ... 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