Among the high days and holy days in the calendar of Putin‘s Russia, no festival ranks above Moscow‘s Victory Day parade.
This annual celebration on May 9 marks the Red Army’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Traditionally Red Square is filled with arsenals of missiles and rocket launchers, battalions of battle tanks and armoured vehicles, thousands of troops and ranks of dignitaries. Last year, more than two dozen foreign heads of state attended.
But not this year. After more than four years of war with Ukraine, the Kremlin has been forced to scale back the parade radically, reducing the show of force to
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