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Russian hackers forced several Ukrainian and Latvian television channels to unintentionally broadcast parts of the annual Victory Day military parade in Moscow's Red Square. In Ukraine, media groups Starlight Media and Inter, public television, and the channels Dim and Apostrophe TV were affected by the cyberattack, Detector Media, a media site, reported on Thursday. In Latvia, media regulator chief Ivars Abolins said web and TV operator Balticom's programme was affected. Russia traditionally commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler's Germany in 1945 with a military parade. Thursday...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow on Thursday to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional con...
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Authorities in an Estonian border city have put up a large placard with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin captioned "war criminal," in dimensions big enough so it can be seen from neighbouring Russia, according to local media. The placard was put up on the exterior walls of the medieval Hermann Castle in Narva, Estonia's third-largest city in the north-east of the country that sits on the border to Russia. The poster shows a bloodstained portrait of Putin and is captioned "Putin - War Criminal." The poster, which is several metres long, is visible from the nearby Russian city of Iv...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's victory in the war, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional conflicts, ethnic or religious conf...
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Numerous people visited the Soviet Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park on Thursday to commemorate the end of World War II in Europe 79 year ago. The Russian ambassador to Germany, Sergei Yuryevich Netshaev, was among the dignitaries that visited the memorial, where he welcomed Russian Orthodox clergymen. Netshaev is also expected to attend a memorial service in the Tiergarten park in Berlin as well. Nazi Germany capitulated to the Allies late in the evening on May 8, 1945, ending the brutal war which left millions dead. But in Russia and many other parts of the former Soviet Union, the event i...
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Russia commemorated the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler's Germany in 1945 with its traditional military parade on Thursday, the third such parade since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on hand at Moscow's Red Square on a chilly morning amid light snowfall. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected Thursday's parade. It is 79 years since the former Soviet Union, together with the United States and other allied powers, defeated Nazi Germany. However, Putin is increasingly using the commemoration of World War II to present the war he has ordered against ...
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Russia plans to commemorate the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler's Germany in 1945 with its traditional military parade on Thursday, the third such parade since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to justify the invasion of his neighbouring country in his speech on Red Square. According to media reports, the 9,000 participants in the parade will include soldiers who have fought in Ukraine in recent months. An air show, which has been cancelled in the past two years, has also been announced. As in previous years, Western heads of state and prime m...
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Members of a nationalist Russian motorcycle club with links to Russia President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited a World War II site near Berlin ahead of the 79th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Around 30 bikers belonging to the Night Wolves, Russia's largest motorcycle club, reportedly made the trip to the Seelow Heights memorial, near the border to Poland. Police said they accompanied the group of bikers, who took photos and drank coffee at the site without incident. Other visits to World War II sites are reportedly planned. The Night Wolves, founded in the Soviet Union in the la...
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Greek army experts have defused 314 bombs in an underground storage room at the old Athens airport, which has been closed since 2001. As the Athens newspaper Kathimerini reported on Friday, citing experts from the landmine clearance battalion (TENX), the bombs dated back to World War II. They were stored 2 metres underground. "We are only alive by chance," Giannis Konstantatos, mayor of the region, said on Greek radio. Above and next to the storage area there were airport facilities for eight decades and, after its closure, schools, kindergartens and, during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, s...
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