In the Action "Immortal regiment" which ends in the capital of Russia, was attended by More than 300 thousand People, said the President of the regional Patriotic social movement "Immortal regiment" Nikolay Zemtsov.
"according to our information, at the beginning of the Action it is attended by 300 thousand people," he said, reports the news Agency.
in the management of the Ministry of internal Affairs, RIA "Novosti" also confirmed that the Action was attended by over 300 thousand People. Before the President of Russia 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. 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. All across the country in the Action plan to engage more than 1 million 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. The expertise of the facilitators, the participants will be over a million people in the world. To hold the "Immortal regiment" In the current year is expected to more than 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. VIDEO

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