WRAP Leaders arrive at Kremlin for VE Day commemoration

(9 May 2005)

1. Wide of Red Square where Victory Day parade
2. Wide of cars with screen behind reading: "60 Years of Great Victory"
3. Russian soldiers in WW II uniforms with original WWII Red Army flags marching in preparation for parade
4. Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
5. British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
6. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
7. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
8. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his wife being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
9. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
10. Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
11. Chinese president Hu Jintao being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
12. Korean president Roh Moo-hyun and wife being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
13. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
14. Former military ruler of Poland Wojciech Jaruzelski being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
15. Various of veterans walking
16. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and wife being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
17. Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
18. US president George W.Bush and wife Laura being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
19. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
20. French President Jacques Chirac being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
21. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
22. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
23. European Commission President Manuel Barroso and wife being greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila
24. Crowd sitting in stands on edge of Red Square
25. Wide of Red Square
26. Putin and wife and Bush and wife sitting in stand
27. Schroeder and wife and Chirac sitting in stand
28. Wide of Red Square

STORYLINE:

World leaders were greeted by Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila in Red Square, Moscow on Monday ahead of the celebrations 60th anniversary of the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany.

Many leaders - including US President George W. Bush, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder joined war veterans from all over the world near Lenin's tomb for a military parade featuring World War II era tanks and MiG and Sukhoi jets.

Silver-haired veterans wearing multiple rows of gleaming medals on their chests filled the stands set up across from the GUM department store, which had a huge victory banner draped across its long façade.

Soldiers in modern and World War II-era uniforms - infantrymen with metal helmets and red flags topped by Soviet insignia, sappers with dogs, airmen with black padded helmets - marched in tight formation, the slap of their boots echoing across the cobblestones.



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