In the Action "Immortal regiment" in the 70-year anniversary of Victory in great Patriotic war in Riga was attended by Over 300 people. Participants of procession to the Monument to the Liberators of Riga from the Nazis were holding pictures of their relatives who fought on the fronts of the great Patriotic war." More than 300 people participated in the Action ", - said the organizers of the event, reports RIA " Novosti ". similarly, in the Latvian capital, thousands of people bring flowers to the Monument to the Liberators in Riga. In the morning on the first day of the weekend-flowers to the monument was laid by the Mayor of Riga nil Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to Latvia Alexander Veshnyakov, as well as a number of commissioners of the diplomatic corps and a separate policy. One of the residents of Latvia brought to the monument layout of the tank made of flowers. On the square near the monument there is a stage where there is a concert. Also the memory of soldiers who died in battle during the great Patriotic war, honored on the first day weekend, may 9, in the capitals of Estonia and Lithuania. The action "Immortal regiment" were held in the far East and Siberia, and similarly in Grozny. The number of participants in events at home, in Tomsk, the expertise of the organizers, was a record - about 30 thousand People. Also, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the portrait of his father, who defended his Homeland from the Nazis, stood at the head of the procession "Immortal regiment" in red square in the Russian capital. Only Shares in the capital was attended by More than 300 thousand People. The action "Immortal regiment" was held in Tomsk in 2012. A year later she was engulfed 120 cities in 2014 - five cities in seven countries. In the past year with portraits of fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers have passed More than half a million people. In 2015, the Event officially became the Russian. By results of examination coordinators, it will involve More than a million people in the world. To hold the "Immortal regiment" In the current year is expected to be More than a thousand settlements. In addition to Russia, the Action will take part South Korea, Austria, Belarus, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Norway, Ukraine, USA, Estonia.
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