Russia Hosts 80th Victory Day Parade with Record Foreign Leaders and Xi Jinping

On the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany several hundred Russian friends marched through Vienna. Ukrainian district demonstrators protested loudly

Victory Day Parade in Moscow To Mark 80th Anniversary of Wwii Victory – Highlights

The parade began with the striking of the Kremlin Clock. The Russian national flag and the victory banner – the sacred symbol of triumph over fascism raised over Berlin in 1945 – were carried into Red Square by the 154th Preobrazhensky Regiment. Defense Minister’s Inspection Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov inspected the troops, accompanied by commander-in-chief of the ground forces, General Oleg Salyukov. Over 11,500 soldiers from the R…

The defeat of Nazi Germany, why history is alive in Russia but...

Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, this week the world witnessed a spectacular, solemn and joyous event to commemorate that historic achievement. The victory parade in Moscow's Red Square was a glorious pageant incomparable to anywhere else. Rightly so, because the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9, 1945, was largely the result of heroic sacrifices of the Soviet and Russian people. The annual commemoration remains as poignant and proud…

Russia commemorated yesterday the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, in memory of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Red Army, an event that ended the Second World War in Europe. The event, perhaps the most important on the Russian civic calendar, served Moscow to demonstrate the failure of the isolation that the West tried to impose on it following the invasion of Ukraine: in addition to the presence of 27 heads of state, Presiden…

Supporters of Vladimir Putin's regime in the Czech Republic raised the flags of the Russian Federation and the Soviet Union in the square and at the monuments to fallen soldiers during the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. And although the Czech Republic has a ban on justifying Russian aggression in Ukraine and a ban on promoting movements that suppress human rights, the use of flags is not considered a misdemeanor…

The traditional parade of 9 May, which celebrated this year the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in front of some 30 foreign leaders, was once again the occasion of a demonstration...