The event was rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As well as a day of national celebration, the parade allows Russia to show off the range of its military personnel and equipment to the world. More than that, however, the event is seen as a way for PresidentThis year's parade comes during an unprecedented global health crisis, and the event had to be rescheduled from its original date, on May 9, to June 24.
"Victory over the Nazi Germany is by far the biggest and the most significant historical event for contemporary Russia. For the Kremlin it is the most effective way to unite diverse peoples of Russia, it is used to legitimize Kremlin's foreign policy aspirations and generally Russian attitude towards great power status. In the past decade, its importance only increased as the Kremlin has been increasingly monopolizing its legacy," he told CNBC Tuesday.
"The original Victory Day was supposed to be a sort of a celebration with a high number of foreign leaders coming to Moscow, symbolically accepting Russia's new constitution," he said. and lockdown measures in Moscow were lifted earlier in the month, feasibly with the forthcoming parade in mindDaragh McDowell, head of Europe and principal Russia analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, acknowledged that the Victory Day parade "is rightly a major, symbolically important holiday for the Russian people in that it represents one of the few, unambiguously positive accomplishments of the Soviet Union," but said the timing of the parade "does serve a clearly discernible...
The coronavirus outbreak has put paid to that this year, however, and there is a slimmed down guest list. Russia's Ministry of Defense says 13 foreign state officials will attend the parade, mostly hailing from former Soviet states and nations allied with Russia, with defense ministers from Armenia, Azerbaijan and India attending the event, among others, and the presidents of Belarus and Serbia.
Nooooooo, As We riot in the streets and Destroy our own Nation....Others are showing Power! Let's Come together and get our Sh Together!
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ITS FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II, THE LOSS OF 27 MILLION LIVES, THE TRIUMP OF SPIRIT
Funny how despots worry about their own image more than public health...
Well HE has a lot of stuff on Trump, as a matter of the FACT the CIA classifie4s Trump as a National Security Threat .
boohoo
DURING A PANDEMIC!?
A man after Trump's own heart