- 9 May 2015
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About 20 million people all over Russia took part in the celebrations dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs Elena Alekseeva.
In Moscow in celebration attended by more than three million, specified in the Interior Ministry in the city.
The number of participants of the action “Immortal Regiment” – demonstration with pictures of relatives and friends who participated in the Second World War – in Moscow exceeded half a million. The march was attended by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Later, gathered 170 thousand on Poklonnaya Hill, what to see the concert and the traditional fireworks.
The main concert on Red Square under the name “Victory Road”, which was attended by Putin opened bikers from motorcycle club “Night Wolves”. They drove on the pavement under the song “I, you, he, she – together happy family” by group “Fidget”.
In a submission attended nearly 9000 people, dozens of professional groups, children’s music ensembles, ballet companies, stuntmen, choirs. Iosif Kobzon, Dima Bilan, Pelagia, Larisa Dolina and Nikolai Baskov performed songs of the war years.
In Moscow saluted the 449 th separate salute division of the Western Military District. Guns how and 9 May 1945, produced 30 artillery volleys.
The sky above Moscow was colored with more than 50 different types of fireworks. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense has promised an upgraded fire spectacle of a duration of 10 minutes.
According to the Interior Ministry, significant violations of public order have been recorded on Saturday. Only in Moscow on May 9 it was involved in more than eight thousand police, internal troops and vigilantes.
Scale hits
The parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of Victory Day has become one of the largest events of this kind, it was attended by 16 thousand soldiers, more than 190 land art pieces and 143 aircraft and helicopters.
The parade started with the music Alexandrov “Holy War” – stands in front of veterans carried the Victory Banner and the flag of Russia. Thereafter, on Red Square have been thousands of war, including several new models of military equipment.
He took hits Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. After a detour Minister grand settlement with speech, Putin, who thanked the allies and urged them to be vigilant.
In his speech, Putin also called “Hitler’s gamble” terrible lesson for the entire world community, and recalled that in the 30s years of enlightened Europe did not immediately see the threat of Nazism. And after 70 years, he said, “the story once again appealing to our reason and our vigilance”.
He added that Russia is grateful to the allies, the people of Britain and the United States, France, for their contribution to the victory and – anti-fascists of various countries, including Germany itself.
However, The Russian leader did not fail to note that the “basic principles of cooperation in the past decades have been increasingly ignored,” and urged the audience to ensure equal security for all states, which is impossible in a unipolar world.
After a minute of silence Putin congratulated and thanked Veterans.
Show of Strength
On the Red Square military marched across the country, some – in the form of the Second World War. Above it flew more than 100 military aircraft and helicopters.
Victory Parade was preceded by several rehearsals. The most discussed “premiere” of this parade has become a high-tech T-14 “Armata” with automatic weapon station, and further secure the capsule for the crew. During the final rehearsal of the tank, as the witnesses said, decayed, but its producers claimed that this was due to the excitement of the crew.
Among the other most anticipated arms – intercontinental ballistic missile PC-24 “yars”, which is a further development of the complex “Topol M” and has three warheads.
At the parade attended, in particular , the head of China Xi Jinping, head of India Pranab Mukrdzhi and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
As a sign of closer ties established between Moscow and Beijing after the introduction of sanctions against Russia, Red Square for the first time the Chinese military convoy passed .
Всего arrived in Moscow for more than 20 heads of state, however, the leaders of many countries have decided not to participate in the parade because of the role of Russia in the Ukrainian crisis.
Russia denies statements by Western countries that Moscow is arming breakaway forces and DNI LC. More than six thousand people have died since the beginning of the conflict in April 2014.
“Parade of cynicism”
The smaller-scale parades were also held in other cities, including Sevastopol Russia annexed the Crimea over a year ago.
The tanks were also on the streets of Donetsk and Lugansk, controlled by armed supporters of the NPT and the LC. Parade in Donetsk took the self-proclaimed head of the People’s Republic of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko.
The parades in Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Belogorsk, Ussuriysk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky involved about 10 thousand people, more than 300 weapons and military equipment, 17 aircraft and helicopters, six ships of the Pacific Fleet.
Then, the parade was held in Novosibirsk, and at 8:00 razdnovaniya began in Yekaterinburg and Tyumen. An hour before the main action in Moscow parade started in Samara and St. Petersburg.
United States, Australia, Canada and most European Union countries do not take part in the festivities in Russia because of Russia’s participation in the Ukrainian crisis, which Russia authorities deny.
On Friday, Poland held an alternative commemoration event for the leaders, who refused to go to Moscow.
Events in Gdansk was visited by presidents of several countries, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, , Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine. Ban Ki-moon also took part in the ceremonies in Gdansk.
Speaking in Poland, Poroshenko said that in the XXI century are repeated events that have been in history.
“The crimes that, despite the most cruel lessons are repeated today, in the XXI century, which appear in the aggression against my country – Ukraine “, – said the president.
The Ukrainian leader described the celebration in Moscow on Saturday,” the parade of cynicism. “
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