RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN ATTENDS A VICTORY DAY MILITARY PARADE

Russia President Vladimir Putin (C) talks to Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov before a military parade on the Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2006 during celebrations to mark the end of World War II. Putin has used the pomp and circumstance of Russia's World War II Victory Day military parade in Red Square to warn neo-Nazis and other nationalist extremists that they faced a "dead end" and must not be tolerated in Russia. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)