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President Vladimir Putin and Austria's President Thomas Klestil laid wreaths at the monument to the city's defenders in Victory Square in St Petersburg

June 23, 2001, St Petersburg

Upon their arrival in St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin and Thomas Klestil laid wreaths at the monument to the city’s defenders in Victory Square in St Petersburg and held one minute’s silence in remembrance of Leningraders killed during the Great Patriotic War.

June 23, 2001, St Petersburg