Russia marks Victory Day in muscular Soviet style - by Malcolm Gray
They can afford it now, so Russians celebrated victory over Nazi Germany by parading soldiers, tanks and missiles through Red Square yesterday for the first time since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. For Dmitry Medvedev, yesterday's Soviet-style Victory Fay parade was the first major event of a presidency only two days old. His predecessor, who months earlier gave the orders that saw 8,000 soldiers march across the square's historic cobbles, remained close by. Former president Vladimir Putin, now the prime minister, sat next to Medvedev on the reviewing stand as military hardware ranging from T-90 battle tanks to huge Topol-M ballistic missiles rolled past.
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