Online marches started in the Russian regions at 15:00 local time.
MOSCOW, May 9.
/TASS/. Around five million people have taken part in the nationwide Immortal
Regiment march online, including some 2.5 million this year, the press service
of the Immortal Regiment national social patriotic movement said on Sunday.
"We have stopped
receiving applications for the participation in the Immortal Regiment online
march. Around 2.5 new applications were added to the last year’s more than 2.5
million participants," it said.
Online marches
started in the Russian regions at 15:00 local time. According to the
organizers, applications filed before 10:00 a.m. on May 7 and approved by
moderators were broadcast on Victory Day, May 9. "The duration of the
march differs in different regions, depending on the number of
applications," the press service added.
In Moscow, the online
march was broadcast on around 300 urban screens in Moscow, as well as on the
Ostankino TV Tower, in metro and in a number of shopping malls. In regions, it
was broadcast on local television.
Applications filed on
May 7 and 8 will be broadcast on the march’s online resources on May 10, and
applications lodged on May 9 could be seen on May 11.
It is planned to hold
an Immortal Regiment march in a traditional offline format on June 24, 2021,
the day when the first Victory Parade took place in Moscow 76 years ago.
The Immortal Regiment
movement was first launched in the city of Tyumen in West Siberia in 2007 and
was initially called "Victors’ Parade." It acquired its current name
in 2012 in Tomsk, and in 2013 it involved 120 cities. The movement officially
became nationwide in 2015.
By now, the Immortal
Regiment march has spread beyond Russia.
Source: ITAR TASS
10-05-2021
