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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Russia Stages Vast Victory Day Parade in Moscow
Some 22 000 soldiers and a massive amount of military equipment including tanks and ballistic missiles took part in the celebrations of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany in Russia's capital Moscow.
Sixty-six years later Russians across the country celebrated Victory Day, May 9, 1945, while remembering the death of 26 million Soviet citizens during World War II, with the military parade on Red Square in Moscow being the pinnacle of the celebrations.
The Russian leadership led by President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin saluted the parade outside the Kremlin which featured 100 pieces of mobile military hardware from armored personnel carriers to Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile launchers
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