Earlier large-scale
public events, including the Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square, to mark the
75th anniversary of the of the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic
War have been postponed amid the coronavirus epidemic.
MOSCOW, May 2.
/TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to lay flowers to the
Eternal Flame in central Moscow on May 9 and address the nation, Putin’s press
secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.
"We expect that
on May 9 the president will lay flowers to the Eternal Flame and will address
the nation from that site," he said in an interview with the Moscow.
Kremlin. Putin program. A fragment of the program was posed on the Instagram
account of its host, Pavel Zarubin.
At a meeting with the
permanent members of the Russian Security Council on April 16, Putin said that
large-scale public events, including the Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square,
to mark the 75th anniversary of the of the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great
Patriotic War (the Eastern Front during WWII where Russia fought against Nazi
Germany) had been postponed amid the coronavirus epidemic. The president
pledged the parade and the Immortal Regiment march would be organized as soon
as the infection threat was gone. On April 28, Putin announced an air parade
and salvos on May 9.
Source: ITAR-TASS
03-05-2020
