Tens of thousands of President Vladimir Putin’s supporters marched through central Moscow on Tuesday in the latest show of increasingly feverish patriotism stirred by the war in Ukraine.A huge, highly organised march through the centre of the capital to mark national Unity Day came at a time of growing social and economic tensions in Russia, as well as diplomatic isolation over the Kremlin’s role in Ukraine.The march — deliberately, observers say — eclipsed a more modest gathering of hardline nationalists on Moscow’s outskirts.Unity Day was introduced under Putin to mark the 1612 expulsion of Polish occupiers and has grown in …read more
Source: Egypt Independent
