⚡️ Enjoy The Russian Embassy Weekly
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Main topics:

#President

🔹Congratulations on Orthodox Easter
🔹Greetings to the Road to Yalta International Music Festival

#ForeignMinistry

🕯Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on marking 10 years since the May 2, 2014, tragedy in Odessa

#DefenceMinistry

🪖 Russian Defence Ministry opens exhibition of captured weapons and hardware in Victory Park

#Embassy

❓ Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question
🔹 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

#WeRemember

🏅 In the early hours of May 1, 1945, the Victory Banner was raised atop of the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin

#OnThisDay

📆 81 years ago — on May 2, 1943 — a soccer match between Spartak and Dynamo was held in Stalingrad
🎖 80 years ago, on May 1, 1944, an executive order of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet established the Medal For the Defence of Moscow
🎞 "Lenfilm", the first Russian film studio, was created on April 30, 1918
✈️ In April of 1939, Soviet aviators Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko completed the historic transatlantic non-stop flight from Moscow to the US