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REMEMBERING THE HEROES: Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on as guards lay a wreath during the unveiling of a war memorial in Moscow on Saturday. RIGA (LATVIA): United States President George W. Bush on Saturday saluted the leaders of fledgling democracies in three Baltic nations that endured Soviet oppression for half a century, and said they could help Russian President Vladimir Putin see the benefits of living in a free society. ``I will continue to speak as clearly as I can to President Putin that it's in his country's interests that there be democracies on his borders,'' Mr. Bush said at a news conference with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. ``We recognise your painful history,'' Mr. Bush said. Mr. Bush's decision to visit the Latvian capital and Georgia on his trip to Moscow to mark the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany prompted a letter of protest from Moscow, which viewed it as meddling in Russia's backyard. `The idea of countries helping others become free, I hope that would be viewed as not revolutionary, but rational foreign policy, as decent foreign policy, as humane foreign policy,'' Mr. Bush said. In Moscow, inaugurating a memorial on Poklonnaya Hill on Saturday on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, President Vladimir Putin said Soviet Union made a "decisive contribution" to the victory over Nazism. ``Our people not only defended their homeland, but also liberated eleven countries of Europe. The aggressor's military machine was crushed on the fields of gigantic battles from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus,'' Mr. Putin said. — AP, UNI
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