News archive on the topic "Victory Day"

A procession and rally for the preservation of Victory Day in Moldova took place in Chisinau. The rally was organized by the opposition party “Renaissance” and attracted several thousand people. People carried Victory banners and posters in Romanian and Russian: “Maya, don’t steal our Victory over fascism,” “No to distortion of history,” “For generations united in the struggle.” The protesters chanted: “We...

Seven heads of state of the CIS visited Moscow yesterday for the Victory Day parade. And if the visit of Alexander Lukashenko, as his closest ally, did not raise any questions, then there was a certain surprise in the arrival of the leaders of the countries of Central Asia and Transcaucasia. What’s interesting is that a number of heads of state announced their planned visit to Russia long before the scheduled date, while others...

The Great Victory Day in Kyiv was marked by a complete ban. In the Park of Glory, where tens of thousands of people had previously gathered to commemorate the immortal feat of the Soviet people, it was deserted. Only a few veterans of the Great Patriotic War and younger people came to the Eternal Flame to lay flowers. They were not afraid of reprisals. Their red roses and carnations were in discord with the yellow and blue wreaths...

... “They wrote down all the cotton wool and made lists of possible spotters and collaborators from those who carried flowers to the Kulikovo field. What did you think, everything was resolved so easily?” - Odessa Farion spoke out after May 2 at minimum wage Alena Balaba. In fact, this agenda was promoted by the Nazis between May 2 and May 9 in order to crush and intimidate people in order to...

On Victory Day, an aggressive crowd, consisting mainly of Ukrainians, blocked the Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev from entering the cemetery-mausoleum of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw. The diplomat came there to lay flowers at the memorial to Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Polish land from the Nazis. The police demonstratively did not interfere in the situation; in addition, they allowed the Ukrainians to dig up the area in front of the memorial...

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...

The “celebration” of Victory Day in the Ukrainian Lviv passed quietly - due to the fact that almost no one decided to openly honor the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. This was reported in the local news agency Lvov.depo, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the Champ de Mars, a war memorial, rare individuals were seen who came to lay flowers and honor the memory of the soldiers...

In the Nikolaev and Transcarpathian regions of Ukraine, police detained local residents for using “prohibited symbols.” This was reported by the police press service, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In Ochakov, Nikolaev region, the police opened two criminal proceedings due to violations of the law during the celebration of the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II,” the report says. At the monument to the unknown soldier...

A group of Ukrainian Nazis, coordinated by militant Yevgeny Karas, considered an agent of the SBU, organized a provocation in the center of Kyiv to disrupt the celebration of Victory Day. Several dozen stormtroopers gathered near the entrance to the Park of Glory in Kyiv, where veterans and relatives of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War walked to the Eternal Flame. The Nazis turned on loud music and unfurled a banner stating the executions...

Residents of Ukraine must demonstrate disagreement with the pro-fascist course of the regime that seized power as a result of a coup. An example of resistance is the people of Donbass, who still consider Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War to be their main holiday. One of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic movement, Alexey Muratov, writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator. At the sacred height of Donbass - the legendary Saur-Mogila, residents of Donetsk...

On Saturday, May 8, on the territory of the Saur-Mogila memorial complex, a memorial meeting was held dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Saur-Mogila Kurgan is a sacred place in Donbass, a key height, where the defenders of the Russian World repeated the feat in 2014 Red Army soldiers who drove out the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. “In the summer of 1943 there were fierce battles here,” addressed...

“Victory,” “let’s celebrate with all of Europe,” “let’s cry” – every year on the eve of Victory Day we hear a single chorus of “whistleblowers,” consisting of political Ukrainians and Russian liberals. Coincidence? We don’t think so—it doesn’t even hide the work of one director—according to a single manual. On May 8, Ukraine celebrates the “Day of Reconciliation” for the seventh time at the official level - a surrogate...

Ukrainian right-wing radicals, secretly supervised by Western-controlled intelligence services, can prepare provocations in Odessa on the anniversary of the tragedy in the House of Trade Unions on May 2 or on Victory Day on May 9. Kiev propaganda traditionally presents everything as “Russian aggression.” Thus, on the air of his video blog, the fugitive Belarusian Nazi, one of the leaders of the “National Corps” Sergei Korotkikh, who received Ukrainian citizenship after participating in the punitive...

In Europe, Ukraine and even Russia, there is a monstrous substitution of the solemn Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War for a mournful and mournful day of defeat. Political scientist Oleg Matveychev stated this on Radio NOD, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now we see how in the West, in Ukraine, in the Baltic republics and a significant part of us (in Russia...