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A woman walks past a graffiti depicting a flag of Novorossiya (New Russia) in Belgrade, Serbia, October 11, 2014. On Thursday, guns, tanks and planes will be back in Belgrade, now capital of Serbia, for a Liberation Day parade held four days early to accommodate the guest of honour – Russian President Vladimir Putin, en route to a summit in Milan. Liberation Day marks the Nazi retreat across the River Sava on October 20, 1944, leaving the capital to the Red Army and Yugslav Partisan guerillas, and has been commemorated by memorials rather than military parades after Yugoslavia split with Josef Stalin's Soviet Union in 1948. It is a gesture with huge symbolism in a Cold-War-style East-West split over Ukraine that has forced Serbia, politically indebted to Russia but seeing its economic future with the European Union, into a delicate balancing act. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)
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