Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Moscow for May 9 to join in the celebration to mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. The German capitulation was signed and witnessed in Karlshorst on May 9, 1945.
Georgii Zhukov signed on behalf of the Supreme High Command of the Red Army and Wilhelm Keitel signed as the Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces.
The Baltic states and Poland have declined the Russian invitation.
Merkel's office has so far not commented on whether the Chancellor will travel to the Russian capital for the celebrations.
German President Johannes Gauck will not be going to Moscow. On May 9 he will lay a wreath on the tomb of a Soviet soldier in Brandenburg.
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