File:Vitaly Fedorchuk.jpg

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The Russian Government has yet to release images from the Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko/Gorbachev Era into public domain (copyright expires after 50 years)
The image is used to show readers how Fedorchuk looked like
The image is being used in an informative way
The image is a small, web-resolution image
The image is used to illustrate the persion in which the article centres
The image's only purpose is to aid in the description of Fedorchuk, and for no other purpose

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Description	A photo of Soviet KGB chairman Vitaly Fedorchuk.
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Article	Vitaly Fedorchuk
Portion used	Whole.
Low resolution?	No.
Purpose of use	This is the publicity image, an official portrait of the Soviet prominent released by the Soviet government organization, now a non-existing entity, to represent a leader of the country to the world. The subject of the article is not alive and taking a free image of him is impossible. The image is not only unrepeatable but also irreplaceable by a generic image that would merely show how the person looked like. This is the official image that shows not just the appearance of the subject but how he and the authority wanted him to be represented. The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (Vitaly Fedorchuk), and how he looked in real life.
Replaceable?	No, the man is dead.
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