The action "Immortal Regiment" can pass online

The "Immortal Regiment" action can be canceled due to the spread of coronavirus infection. Information about this appeared on the official website of the action. The organizers urge to refrain from holding street mass events on May 9.

“First of all, any activity is completely dependent on how the situation with the pandemia will develop. Our position: we consider in the context of real danger, even at the end of the self -isolation period, it is necessary to refrain from conducting, promoting or participating in any mass events on the streets on May 9,” the report said.

Instead of a traditional procession, the organizers propose to recall the participants in the Second World War on social networks. Those who are not able to upload photos or videos on the Internet are proposed to gather a family at the table.

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The annual procession of the Immortal Regiment, during which its participants carry portraits of veterans of the Second World War, was invented in 2011 by the Tomsk journalist of the independent TV channel TV-2. Subsequently, the organization began to deal with the Russian public organizations related to the authorities. In the procession in Moscow, Vladimir Putin repeatedly participated. The last few shares were collected in the capital of about a million people.