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Friday, January 18, 2008

Moscow resumes May parades to demonstrate military strength

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 (Interfax, January 15).

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