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Moscow Resumes Annual Military Parade, But On V-E Day, Not May Day
Full-scale, Soviet-style military parades with displays of tanks and other military hardware will return to Red Square beginning May 9. The decision to resume this public display of military might was reportedly taken at a January 12 meeting of top Russian military leaders. The new Topol-M (SS-27) mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles will also roll past the reviewing stands near the Kremlin wall. The parade is timed to celebrate VE-Day, the end of the European portion of World War II. The planned high-profile parade will apparently coincide with the inauguration of the next Russian president, presumably Dmitry Medvedev, whom Vladimir Putin has designated as his successor. Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-19 |
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