President Putin Attend Wreath-laying Ceremony at Unknown Soldier Tomb on Memory Day

On June 22, President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the 75th anniversary of the start of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War. The ceremony by the Kremlin wall is held on the Day of Memory and Grief. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, members of the Government and Parliament also laid flowers at