President Putin lays flowers on Red Square for national Unity Day


Moscow (AFP) – Russian president Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Moscow’s Red Square to mark national Unity Day during a ceremony with the country’s religious leaders, including the country’s Jewish and Muslim representatives. The holiday marks the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces from Moscow in 1612.

©AFP

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