VICTORY DAY
IS CELEBRATED
IN MOSCOW
VOLGOGRAD, RUSSIA, USSR, 1984
STATUES OF A SOVIET SOLDIER &
MOTHER RUSSIA, COMMEMORATING
THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (WORLD WAR II)
May 9 is celebrated in Russia as Victory Day -- for May 9, 1945, and the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. As the newly re-inaugurated Russian President Vladimir Putin put it today, "it was our country that bore the brunt of the Nazi attack, met it with historic resistance [as in Stalingrad, see above], traversed immense hardships, determined the war's outcome, routed the enemy and liberated the world's peoples."
Putin also made it official today, in a phone conversation with U.S. President Barrack Obama, that he would not be coming to the G-8 summit at Camp David next week. Newly ex-President Dmitry Medvedev would be coming instead, officially in his brand-new (as of yesterday) capacity of Prime Minister.
Putin is still scheduled to attend the G-20 meeting in Mexico in June.
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