YABLOKO paid tribute to the memory of the vicitms of the Second World War
Press Release, 08.05.2014
On the eve of the Victory Day, leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party laid a wreath and flowers at the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin walls.
Galena Mikhaleva, Grigory Yavlinsky, Elena Dubrovina and Sergei Mitrokhin
Veterans of the war thanked Sergei Mitrokhin for his help in their fight against in-fill construction of the yard at Dmitrovsky pereulok 5.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, Political Committee members Grigory Yavlinsky, Sergei Ivanenko, Elena Dubrovina, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Galina Mikhalyova, members and supporters of the party took part in the ceremony.
Sergei Mitrokhin noted that Victory Day was celebrated all over Russia. “The 9th of May joins together all people, despite their differences and political views. We live because of Victory. Let us not to forget about it! ” Sergei Mitrokhin said.
Sergei Ivanenko, Galina Mikhaleva, Sergei Mitrokhin, Grigory Yavlinsky and Yelena Dubrovina.
“This is a day of great sorrow. Tens of millions of people gave their lives for freedom and dignity and independence of our Motherland. The duty of citizens of Russia on this day is to bow heads and remember all those who gave everything for our lives,” Grigory Yavlinsky noted.
On Victory Day YABLOKO will traditionally commemorate the soldiers who died in the war in Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery – the largest military burial in Moscow.
Posted: May 9th, 2014 under History.