RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN ATTENDS A CEREMONY OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL REGIMENT IN MOSCOW KREMLIN

Left to right: Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexi II, Former President Boris Yeltsin, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Director of Russian Federal Security Service Nikolay Patrushev attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Regiment in Moscow Kremlin on May 7, 2006. Today Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Regiment and presented a new combat banner. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)