The administration of Russian President...

It said 12 heads of state had already confirmed their presence at the anniversary.

General Jaruzelski was one of the nine former heads of state who had fought in World War II, including George Bush and Valery Giscard d"Estaing.

Jaruzelski, Poland"s prime minister from 1981 to 1985 and head of state from 1985 to 1990, was the country"s last communist leader. He resigned after the Polish Round Table Agreement in 1989 led to democratic elections in Poland.

In 2005, General Jaruzelski attended the Moscow celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, together with then Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski.

WARSAW, March 27 (RIA Novosti)

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India has plans to introduce into its armed...

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MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) - The...

MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the European Court of Human Rights Monday to speed up the hearing of an appeal lodged by a Russian World War II veteran against Latvia. Vasily Kononov, 84, a Russian World War II partisan, was convicted by Latvian authorities of war crimes for ordering the killing of several Nazi collaborators in 1944, while Latvia was occupied by German troops. He filed an appeal to the court in Strasbourg in 2004, but the court has not yet begun hearing the case. "It looks as if they have openly decided to drag out the Vasily Kononov case," the ministry said in a statement. "Such a course is, first of all, advantageous for Latvia, which is interested in closing the case "naturally," considering Vasily Kononov"s advanced age and deteriorating health." The ministry reiterated that two other Russian WWII veterans, Nikolai Tess and Nikolai Larionov, who also lodged appeals to the court in Strasbourg after being accused by Latvian authorities of genocide, died in 2006 and in 2005, correspondingly, before the court could begin hearings. "The current situation demonstrates a tendency to increasingly politicize the work of the European Court on Human Rights, which, in turn, concerns Russia," the ministry said. Russia joined the Kononov case as a third party in May 2006. While Kononov was in custody, his son and brother died, and his daughter was sent to a psychiatric hospital. In the fall of 2005, doctors diagnosed Kononov with a life-threatening illness. Latvia, along with neighboring Estonia and Lithuania, was taken over by the Soviet Union in 1940, and the Soviets regained control of the three Baltic nations from Nazi Germany in 1944. While Russia maintains that the Red Army liberated the Baltics from Nazi invaders, many local residents see the advent of Soviet soldiers as an act of aggression.

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