MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. A military parade to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War will take place on Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, with media accreditation for the event opening on April 3, the Kremlin press office announced on Monday.
"The accreditation is being held for the following events: May 7. Red Square. The final rehearsal of the military parade devoted to the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. May 9. Red Square. The military parade devoted to the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War," the Kremlin press office said.
The media accreditation for the event will take place only on the Kremlin’s website and will be over at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time on April 12, it specified.
Requests for the accreditation will be accepted from Russian media outlets registered with Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor and foreign journalists accredited at the Foreign Ministry of Russia. The writing media will be able to send a journalist and a photo correspondent from the editorial board to cover the parade while television channels will be able to send a filming team of no more than three people, the Kremlin press office said.
Last year, 1,246 journalists were accredited for the Victory Day Parade on May 9, including representatives of some US, British, Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Czech, Japanese and other foreign media outlets.