Putin marks Russia’s Victory Day in virus-reduced ceremony

Posted 2020-05-09, Belfast Telegraph Headlines

Photo: Creative Commons / Marcos Corrêa

Russian President Vladimir Putin has marked the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp by the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Putin laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier outside the Kremlin walls in Moscow, and gave a short address... read full story

Photo: (Brasília - DF, 11/14/2019) Vladimir Putin at Dialogue of Leaders with the BRICS Business Council and the New Development Bank

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