calendar>>February 23. 2011 Juch 100
Wreaths Laid before Liberation Tower and Cemetery of Soviet Army
Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- The staff members of the Russian embassy here laid a wreath before the Liberation Tower on Wednesday on the occasion of the Day of Defenders of the Motherland.

Attending the wreath-laying ceremony were Ambassador Valery Sukhinin and Military Attache Aleksei Bartusov and other staff members of the Russian embassy and military attaches of foreign embassies here.

After a wreath in the name of the Russian embassy was placed before the tower the participants paid silent tribute to the fallen fighters of the Soviet army.

They also placed a wreath and bouquets before the cemetery of fallen fighters of the Soviet army in Sadong District, Pyongyang on the same day.

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