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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) delivers a speech as he stands in front of King’s gates in Kaliningrad 02 July 2005. Putin will welcome German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on Sunday amid a diplomatic quarrel with neighboring Poland and Lithuania. „We celebrate and our neighbors are vexed,” the local Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper quipped, referring to comments by Poland’s President Alexander Kwasniewski and Lithuania’s Valdas Adamkus who said they were „vexed” at not receiving invites to the territory’s 750th anniversary party. AFP PHOTO / MAXIM MARMUR