Stock Photo - Polish President Bronislav Komorowski (centre left) and his Slovak counterpart Andrej Kiska (centre right) have put flowers to the monument of the SNP during the celebration marking the 70th anniversary of the anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising (SNP) in Bratislava, Slovakia on August 29, 2014. According to CTK´s information, Bronislaw Komorowski refused to take part in the official programme in protest against the presence of Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu. However, Komorowski had lunch together with Slovak President Andrej Kiska and Czech President Milos Zeman this afternoon. Warsaw is one of the hardest critics of Moscow´s role in the armed actions of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. Former Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Banska Bystrica and Putin asked Shoygu to represent Russia at the event. (CTK Photo/Jan Koller)