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| Moscow Resumes Annual Military Parade, But On V-E Day, Not May Day |
| 2008-01-19 |
| 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 |
| #1 Hot dawg Happy Days are here again so laissez les bons temps rouler yawl. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2008-01-19 19:00 |