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Russian General of the Army Nikolay Makarov, chief of the General Staff and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff congratulate Igor Bleousovitch after presenting him with a Russian Presidential Medal commemorating the 65th anniversary of his particiaption at meeting of U.S. and Russian forces at the Elbe RIver in Germany on April 25, 1945. Bleousovitch, an U.S. Army World War II veteran fluent in Russian was an interpreter, photographer and liaison to Soviet forces on that historic day. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist Chad J. McNeeley/Released)