Heads of Parliaments of CSTO States Laid Flowers at the Monument to the Soldier of Victory in the Victory Museum

Today, on December 9, Moscow is hosting a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The heads of parliaments of the Organization's Member States who arrived for the meeting laid a wreath and flowers at the monument to the Soldier of Victory in the Victory Museum, where the official logo for the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was unveiled in November.

The ceremony was held in a solemn atmosphere. The delegation was headed by Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and Head of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

The participants paid tribute to the fallen soldiers with a minute of silence, then laid a wreath and flowers at the ten-meter high monument, dominated by the bronze Wreath of Glory, representing the contribution of all the peoples of the former Soviet Union to the Great Victory.

At the Assembly meeting, which is scheduled at the House of Unions, the participants will discuss the key issues on the agenda, including the draft Recommendations on Developing Common Approaches of the CSTO Member States to Counter Attempts to Revise and Distort the Historical Events and Results of the Great Patriotic War and Second World War and the draft CSTO PA Address in Connection with the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War and Anti-Hitler Coalition in the Second World War.

For reference. The Hall of Glory of the Victory Museum in Moscow is dedicated to the heroism of Soviet soldiers, partisans, underground fighters and participants of the Resistance movement in the war against German aggressors and Japanese militarists. The names of more than 11,800 Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of Russia, awarded for their feats during the Great Patriotic War, are immortalized on 72 marble poles of the Hall of Glory.