GREAT FRIENDSHIP Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev (L) arrive to attend the Victory Day military parade at Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, 2015. Putin presides over a huge Victory Day parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Soviet win over Nazi Germany, amid a Western boycott of the festivities over the Ukraine crisis. AFP PHOTO
GREAT FRIENDSHIP
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev (L) arrive to attend the Victory Day military parade at Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, 2015. Putin presides over a huge Victory Day parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Soviet win over Nazi Germany, amid a Western boycott of the festivities over the Ukraine crisis. AFP PHOTO

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping talked up ties in Moscow on Friday as some two dozen world leaders headed to Russia for a grandiose World War II victory parade snubbed by the West.

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