PREVIEW: Putin to lay flowers at monument on Red Square to mark National Unity Day
Society & Culture
November 04, 2023, 5:13
The ceremony will be also attended by representatives of religious denominations, public and youth organizations
MOSCOW, November 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will traditionally lay flowers at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square on National Unity Day, which is celebrated in Russia on November 4.
The ceremony will be also attended by representatives of religious denominations, public and youth organizations. According to Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Putin has no other events planned for November 4.
National Unity Day has been celebrated in Russia since 2005. The holiday was established in memory of the liberation of Moscow from Polish invaders in November 1612 by people's militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky.