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Russian Embassy's Staffs Lay Wreaths
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Staff members of the Russian embassy here laid a wreath before the Liberation Tower Sunday on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Ambassador Valery Sukhinin and staff members of the Russian embassy and diplomatic envoys and military attaches of foreign embassies here.

Amid the playing of the wreath-laying music, the participants placed the wreath and bouquets before the tower and paid silent tribute to the Soviet army soldiers who fell in the battles for the liberation of Korea.

They also laid a wreath at the cemetery of the fallen Soviet army soldiers in Sadong District and paid silent tribute to the fallen Soviet army soldiers.

Meanwhile, the Russian embassy placed bouquets before the statue of the Soviet army soldiers in Nampho on Friday.

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