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Russian President Boris Yeltsin (c),Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko (r) and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Filaret (l) stand in front of the War Memorial, an important Soviet monument, in the Belarussian city of Brest Saturday June 22,1996. Yeltsin chose a patriotic theme for his first trip of the Russian presidential runoff campaign, participating in ceremonies at the destroyed fortress at Brest marking the 55th anniversary of the Nazi invasion. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo / Czarek Sokolowski)