Russia Day, 12 June, exactly at 13 o’clock President Vladimir Putin will take part in the ceremony of raising the national flag in Victory Park on Poklonnaya hill in Western Moscow. This innovation this year. The President also will award gold medals awarded to the Heroes of Labor. All honorees this year are tested for coronavirus COVID-19, said the press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov.
In this case, Peskov said that the visit to the concert on red square to mark Russia Day, Putin has no plans. In 2020, contrary to tradition, the Kremlin will not be a traditional annual reception in honor of the holiday, reports TASS. Usually the reception in the Kremlin the President holds personally, but the concert traditionally takes place without the participation of the head of state. The Ministry of labor reminds in this context that this year 12, 13 and 14 June are nonworking days.
the ceremony of awarding the Heroes of Labor is usually confined to 1 May – Day of spring and labour. Because of the coronavirus pandemic declared by the world health organization on 11 March, the planned time for this event has been postponed to a later date. In Day of Russia, the President usually, as a rule, were awarded the state prize for literature, the arts, science and technology. But this ceremony, as said the Advisor to the President on culture Vladimir Tolstoy, in 2020 postponed to June 24. It will take place after the Victory Parade on red square, devoted to the 75 anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war. June 24, the day the historic first Victory Parade, 1945, in 2020, a presidential decree declared a day off.
