On January 27, Friday, St. Petersburg commemorates 62th anniversary of complete reversal of fascists blockade. On this day in 1944 Leningrad`s 900-day siege was raised.
The ceremonies of laying flowers took place on the three city cemeteries, where the soldiers defending the city and the city citizens, who died during the blockade, are buried.
In honor of complete reversal of fascists blockade gas torches are lighted on Rastralny pillars near the Neva river. In the evening there going to be festive fireworks.
In her speech of congratulation, Valentina Matvienko has said that Smolny is going to settle the most difficult social injustice in respect of veterans of blockade.
The thing is that Federal laws still divide them into two categories. Those who worked in Leningrad in 1940es, and have the reference on it, receive double pension. Peterburg deputies has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with demand to pay additional pension to those who have a medal "Citizen of blockaded Lenigrad".
According to their calculation, federal costs of eliminating social injustice in respect of 180 thousands people, constitute 8 billion rubles a year, not a too big sum.
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