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Police Come Out In Force for Unity Day...7,000 marched peacefully. People's Unity Day was established by former President Vladimir Putin in 2005 to replace the Soviet Union's biggest holiday, the Nov. 7 anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. The new holiday, which most... In this article: Moscow, Unity Day, Dmitry Medvedev, United Russia, Dmitry Pozharsky, God, and Russia |
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 07, 2008
Russian troops march through Red Square
...by Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, four years ago. Mr Putin replaced the holiday with a Unity Day, despite popular opposition to the concept, but marches on Red Square have persisted. Ten of the world's best places to down a tequila...
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... Russian President Vladimir Putin created National Unity Day three years ago ... Unity Day is meant to show the power of the Russian people as a unified whole, ...
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A Messy Holiday in Moscow - Robert Amsterdam
... of People's Unity Day, a new holiday invented by Vladimir ... Vladimir Putin at varied events in Russia on Tuesday marking a People's Unity Day holiday. ...
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People's Daily Online -- Putin calls for more unity as Russia ...
Putin calls for more unity as Russia marks Unity Day ... Vladimir Putin called for more unity in the federation on Friday, saying unity ...
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USATODAY.com Latest News ... Vladimir Putin | Revolution Day | Red Star | National Unity Day | VTsIOM ... Russian President Vladimir Putin | Chechen | Liberal ...
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Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader-for-life? ... his official remarks on People's Unity Day, Putin himself said, "Some people are ...
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Russia, Unity Day - JRL 11-5-06
Johnson's Russia List ... [Putin] Speech at the State Reception devoted to National Unity Day. PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon dear friends! ...
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Confusion Day - thestar.com
MOSCOW–Russian President Vladimir Putin created National Unity Day three years ago to replace October Revolution Day, formerly the most patriotic celebration in the ...
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Unity Day, Day of People’s Unity (or National Unity Day; Russian: День народного единства) was first celebrated in Russia in 2005. Held on November 4, it commemorates the popular uprising which expelled the Polish-Lithuanian occupation force from Moscow in November 1612, and more generally the end of the Time of Troubles and foreign intervention in Russia in the Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618). Its name alludes to the idea that all the classes of Russian society willingly united to preserve Russian statehood when its demise seemed inevitable, even though there was neither Tsar nor Patriarch to guide them. In 1613 tsar Mikhail Romanov instituted a holiday named Day of Moscow’s Liberation from Polish Invaders. The holiday, held in October, was abandoned in 1917. November 4 is also the feast day for Our Lady of Kazan, the holy icon which the Russian Orthodox Church probably venerates most. The Day of People's Unity is used by Russian ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis to parade through their cities to warn that "Russia is for Russians."
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