Summary
Although President Putin turned up on Sunday, Russian veterans of the 'Great Patriotic War' have not been celebrating the D-Day anniversary.
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I spent Sunday in the BBC TV studio in Arromanches through six hours of live coverage of the D-Day commemoration. It would never do to tell them this, but I would have done it for nothing. It is 30 years since I took part in a big outside broadcast. The cliché is true: it brings out the best in the Beeb. No one else can do anyt...
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