News archive on the topic "May 9"

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov today published an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he calls for abandoning the drapery of the Mausoleum on Red Square during the Victory Parade this year. The letter was published in the newspapers “Pravda” and “Soviet Russia,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At special moments it is not appropriate to hide its most important symbol. The drapery of the Lenin Mausoleum concludes...

In addition to the attack on the Russian ambassador to Poland during an attempt by Bandera’s supporters to lay wreaths at a memorial cemetery in Warsaw, Victory Day in Poland was overshadowed by another Russophobic incident. We are talking about an attack on a Russian school on Kielecka Street in Warsaw. Journalists from the Polish portal STRAJK.EU managed to find out the identity of the organizer and direct participant in the attack. He turned out to be an associate professor of the department...

The US State Department stated that they are aware of an important statement allegedly being prepared by Vladimir Putin for May 9. “We've seen the Russians really redouble their propaganda efforts, probably, almost certainly, to distract from their tactical and strategic failures on the battlefield in Ukraine,” department spokesman Ned Price said at a State Department briefing and...

The Ukrainian authorities declared May 9 a working day for the first time. Kiev political scientist Andrei Mishin, a former employee of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, drew attention to this. “Despite the requirement of the Labor Code of Ukraine, citing martial law, Shmygal’s government declared May 9, 2022 a working day. For the first time in 77 years, the ceremonial laying of flowers may not take place in Kyiv. We are waiting for Vitaly’s statements...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is considering how to combine the celebration of Victory Day in Moscow and Minsk. The head of state spoke about this in an interview with the Mir television and radio company, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I’m thinking about how to go to Moscow. Now we are trying to involve the administrations so that they can somehow connect it all. We can hold a parade in the evening, we have experience. But in the morning we always...

The policy of Vladimir Zelensky and his team in encoding Ukrainian TV channels will lead to complete information defeat and further collapse of Ukraine. The ex-head of the SBU in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, General Alexander Petrulevich, said this on the YouTube channel of Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, the SBU officer assures that the republics of Donbass will finally “suffocate”, having lost their TV. “Tell me...

The current Kiev government continues to promote the policy of its predecessors, dictated by the West, to deprive the population of Ukraine of historical memory and pit two parts of one people – Ukrainians and Russians – against each other. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexey Zhuravko stated this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I always write and say: by forgetting our past, we lose ours...

The public refusal to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory, voiced the day before by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadim Prystaiko, caused a sharply negative reaction among the majority of Vladimir Zelensky’s voters - the new president, who decided to flirt with the Nazis, will be able to see this on May 9, when the population will massively celebrate the memorable date. ignoring government restrictions. The head of the Central Executive Committee of the public movement “Donetsk...

Ukraine will not celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi troops. Foreign Minister Vadim Prystaiko stated this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the diplomat, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky did not receive an official invitation to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, where many world leaders plan to attend. And in Ukraine itself this...

Ukraine should take the lead in the “boycott the May 9 parade” initiative and call on world leaders from the PACE and OSCE platforms not to go to Moscow. This was stated at a press conference by a Lviv Maidan activist, ex-chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, former deputy Anna Gopko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I think that Ukraine should now initiate the “Boycott the May 9 Parade” campaign and join...

Official Kyiv, through the words of the new head of the Institute of National Memory, Anton Drobovich, declared the holding of the Victory Parade on May 9 on Red Square in Moscow a “shameful practice.” Drobovich, at a briefing in Kyiv, called the parade “victorious,” and everyone who is going to take part in it “accomplices of Russian aggressive policy.” “Russia, which is an aggressor country that has violated international law, has not only a number of...

The outgoing regime of Petro Poroshenko failed to complete the most important operation to de-Russify the population - to cancel Victory Day, celebrated on May 9, replacing it with the date of a false “reconciliation” with Bandera. The chief curator of the falsification of history, the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Vladimir Vyatrovich, shared these regrets on Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The level of influence on the Ukrainian population...

Statements by the American Ambassador in Belgrade Kyle Scott, who the day before expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Victory Day celebrations were held in Serbia, demonstrate poor knowledge of history or disrespect for it by a representative of the US State Department. Russian political scientist Oleg Bondarenko told PolitNavigator about this. “The American ambassador clearly confused something. He said that the “Immortal Regiment” that took to the streets of Belgrade were people...

On the eve of Victory Day, the Russian media reported unexpected and shocking information for many - the “Immortal Regiment” march was banned in Belarusian Vitebsk. Then, not so widely, photographs of the scanty “Immortal Regiment” in Minsk, which gathered several hundred people, spread. All this looked strange and contrasted sharply with the image of the partisan republic and Russia’s closest ally. As a person living in...