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| A pillar conceived by Peter I will be installed in St. Petersburg in honor of the victory in the 18th century Northern War |
| 2024-06-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In St. Petersburg, a triumphal pillar will be erected in front of the Lakhta Center in honor of Russia’s victory in the Northern War of 1700–1721, Gazprom head Alexey Miller announced on June 5. The height of the column will be 82 meters, Miller said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The monument was conceived by Peter I, he noted. “Triumphal Column, 82 meters. It was timed to coincide with the victory in the Northern War and the proclamation of Russia as the Russian Empire on November 2, 1721. This was planned by Pyotr Alekseevich Romanov,” Miller said. The height of the column was not chosen by chance; it is connected with the fact that it was in 1682 that Peter became king, said the head of Gazprom. The monument itself is designed to be hollow and is actually an “ordinary pipe,” Miller noted. “Gazprom already knows how to build pipes,” Putin joked in response. As previously reported, the Russian President will hold a meeting with the heads of international news agencies at the Lakhta Center on June 5. The conversation will be devoted to current aspects of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, assistant to the head of state Yuri Ushakov said earlier. SPIEF runs from June 5 to 8, 2024. The main topic will be “The basis of a multipolar world—the formation of new growth points.” Advisor to the President, Executive Secretary of the SPIEF Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov reported on May 31 that 136 countries and territories have confirmed their participation in SPIEF. In his greeting to the forum participants on May 27, Putin noted that SPIEF should give a start to new promising initiatives and projects and serve to build up mutually beneficial cooperation between countries and peoples. Russia is open to constructive dialogue and interaction with partners, and is ready to work together to solve the economic, social, scientific and technological problems of our time, the head of state added. Russia notes a significant change in global conditions and stands for business cooperation based on law and on mutually beneficial conditions, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on June 5, answering the question about the ideology of the forum in 2024. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 after Russia's victory, thousands of Swedish POW and Russian serfs were worked to death building St Petersberg |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-06-06 09:44 |