Victory Day celebrated throughout the world the processions of the "Immortal Regiment" and the laying of wreaths

Victory Day is celebrated around the world. People participate in the "Immortal Regiment" action, lay wreaths at the monuments to the victims of the war. More than 400 people gathered on Wednesday in the Park "Chaoyan" in Beijing to participate in the Immortal Regiment campaign. This was reported by the coordinator of the socio-patriotic movement "Immortal Regiment" in Beijing Elena Timofeeva.

Memory measures dedicated to the celebration of the 73rd anniversary of Victory are held in the territory of the Peking Park "Chaoyan", in the art gallery "Jintai". The central event was the procession of the Immortal Regiment: under the songs of the war years, a centralized column of people with portraits of relatives proceeded to lay flowers to the monument “Soviet Falcon” - the collective image of the Soviet pilot. The participants in the event with a minute of silence honored the memory of the heroes of the war and launched a symbolic salute of rose petals into the sky.

The holiday was celebrated the day before in the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro . The largest South American country traditionally celebrated a memorable date and congratulated its veterans who fought on the side of the anti -Hitler coalition.

"Protection of freedom, peace and democracy was carried out at the cost of large sacrifices. Brazil paid its share of a coin from blood and honor - it has become the only country of South America that participated in hostilities in Europe. Today, May 8 is the day when we honest our heroes, and also pay tribute to those who have happened to experience losses," the acting minister of the defense said during the ceremony. Brazil Joachim Silva-i-lun. The head of the military department of the South American Republic also noted the role of Soviet troops in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

President of Kyrgyzstan, Uraoronbai Jeenbekov, took part in the procession of the Kyrgyzstan residents, whose relatives and friends took part in the Great Patriotic War, RIA Novosti reports. The thousands of Bishkek inhabitants of the Victory Park, located in the foothills of the Ala-Too at the southern outskirts of the capital, to the Eternal Flame on Victory Square in the center of Bishkek , where a rally-advertisement, was held.

"The president takes part in the procession with the portraits of his grandfather - Pirnazarov Jeenbek - and his two siblings who fought on the fronts of the Second World War," said the representative of the press service of the head of the Kyrgyz state.

Tens of thousands of people took part on Wednesday in the "Immortal Regiment" in the Moldavian capital of Chisinau . The multi -kilometer column was led by the president of the country Igor Dodon. Among the participants in the procession there are many young people who carry portraits of their relatives, red flags, St. George ribbons, some came in a Soviet -style military form or put on green caps, TASS reports. The march participants walked along the streets of the city to the Eternity memorial complex to lay flowers to the eternal fire and graves of Soviet soldiers.

Several thousand people on Wednesday took part in the Immortal Regiment campaign in Minsk , the organizers of which received permission to hold it at the very last moment. Participants in the event gathered in Yakub Kolas Square in the center of the Belarusian capital.

Relatives of participants in the Great Patriotic War came to the building of the Belarusian State Philharmonic, in their hands they held portraits of their loved ones, who protected the country from fascism.

Earlier, the Minsk City Executive Committee did not allow the organizers of the Immortal Regiment to hold a separate event, citing the fact that at the same time several mass events cannot be carried out along one route. At the same time, the city authorities invited the participants in the "Immortal Regiment" to take part in the republican action "Belarus remembers". In the afternoon of May 8, it became known that the city authorities allowed the participants of the Immortal Regiment campaign to gather on the Square of Yakub Kolas and pass the column to Victory Square.

Several incidents occurred on Wednesday in the Georgian cities of Tbilisi and Batumi on shares dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day. According to Interfax , in Vake Park (former Victory Park) in Tbilisi, where the graves of an unknown soldier and eternal flame are located, a verbal skirmish occurred between representatives of the Socialist Georgia movement and representatives of the Opposition Party The Unified National Movement. The reason for the dispute, according to the media, was Soviet symbolism, in particular the flags of the USSR, which were held in their hands by participants in the action organized by "socialist Georgia."

The use of Soviet symbols in Vaca Park and representatives of a number of public movements, who, as they declared to journalists, came to take a look in front of the park in order to prevent the appearance of the Red Banners and other symbols of the former USSR. According to them, they intend to inform the police about all these facts and demand response from the authorities, since by the law the use of Soviet symbols in Georgia is prohibited.

Several hundred people took part in the “Immortal Regiment” campaign in the capital of Poland - Warsaw , RIA Novosti reports. On Wednesday, on the territory of the memorial cemetery on Zhvirki and Vigura Street, where 22 thousand Soviet soldiers who released Poland were buried, representatives of the Russian Embassy, ​​diplomatic mission of other CIS countries, and activists of Polish public organizations gathered. This year, several veterans of the Great Patriotic War, who came from Russia, took part in the action.

Several thousand people took part in the official entry of flowers on the morning of Victory Day to the Soviet memorial in Treptov Park in Berlin , RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The official celebration began with the traditional moment of silence at the foot of the memorial. The heads and representatives of the diplomatic mission of Russia, the USA, Vietnam, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, as well as the Federal Government of Germany, the Senate of Berlin, the land of Brandenburg, political parties and anti -fascist organizations rose to the mound, with flowers in their hands.