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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) -- A "relaxed" Russian President Vladimir Putin 
ducked into a small Dresden bakery for a cup of coffee and a glance at the 
local newspaper, obviously at home in the city where he worked as a KGB spy.

Bakery manager Alexandra Gaertner said he walked into her Wiener Feinbaecker 
cafe for a cup of coffee costing 1.90 euros and a 99-cent walnut pastry on 
Wednesday.

"I couldn't believe it when he walked in but he spoke excellent German and I 
could understand him very well," Gaertner, 36, told Reuters on Thursday. "He 
had a very calm aura and seemed totally relaxed."

She said Putin read parts of the "Dresdner Morgenpost" daily and then joined in 
a lively conversation in German with a group of construction workers who were 
standing at the next table.

Gaertner said Putin, wearing a dark blue suit, pointed at pictures in the 
newspaper of him with Chancellor Angela Merkel from the previous day's meeting 
in Dresden.

Putin finished his pastry and coffee and was gone after about 10 minutes with 
his security and several photographers.

Putin lived in Dresden as a KGB agent in the 1980s and speaks fluent German. He 
met Merkel in the eastern German city on Tuesday before flying to Munich on 
Wednesday for a meeting with Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber.

Putin's flight to Munich was delayed for an hour while he savored an extra few 
moments in Dresden. Bild newspaper said that Stoiber, who was kept waiting in 
Munich by the unexpected delay, was told it was due to fog.

Bild said Putin also took a quick look inside the nearby Frauenkirche, or 
Church of Our Lady, that was firebombed at the end of World War Two and 
recently rebuilt for 180 million euros ($225.6 million).

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