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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) poses for a picture with World War II veterans in the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow May 8, 2005. Putin on Sunday urged leaders of the 12-member club of ex-Soviet states, some of them already shifting to the West, to stick together to fight extremism and terrorism. (Reuters)

French President Jacques Chirac stands in a command car during ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II on the Champs Elysee in Paris May 8. (Reuters)

A boy hands a flower to a WWII veteran arriving in a Moscow train station as part of the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in WWII yesterday in Moscow. The train had started its journey seven days before from Belarus to finish at Belaruskaya station, where the soldiers arrived 60 years ago when coming back from war. (AFP)