"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

VICTORY DAY IN MOSCOW. VLADIMIR PUTIN IS NOT COMING TO CAMP DAVID.

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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