© RIA Novosti / Said TsarnaevThe participants carried 600 meter Russian and Chechen flags chanting "Russia!", "Chechnya!"
Up to 100,000 people have taken part in a
birthday celebration rally in honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Chechnya's capital of Grozny, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Tuesday.
The rally was launched at Minutka Square later moving on to Akhmad Kadyrov Avenue in Grozny, where "up to 100,000 Chechens attended the celebration", a spokesman for the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti.
The participants carried 600 meter Russian and Chechen flags chanting "Russia!", "Chechnya!"
The celebration will conclude with a birthday concert and Chechen folk dancing.
This year, on October 7,
Vladimir Putin celebrates his 62nd birthday. According to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Russia leader took a day off and left for the Siberian taiga to mark his birthday.
Comment: Remember Chechnya? When Putin finished the war Yeltsin started against the Chechen 'rebels', the West had nothing to say except "war criminal"! You see, when the States fights terrorism, it's okay; not so if you're Putin. But the parallels only go so far: the U.S. not only has been responsible for all the 'terror groups' it has attacked (showing the utter cynicism and psychopathy of U.S. leadership), but it also had a hand in flaring up terrorism in Chechnya. The threat was serious to Russians, unlike the threat to Americans from terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc. The 'rebels' (i.e., terrorists) in Chechnya were the ISIS of their time - racist, murderous, ruthless. Look at Chechnya now: stable, recovered, and in support of the man who 'invaded' them. Look at the U.S.'s similar ventures: Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan... Really similar, right?
Next time they, The Chechens should make referendum ... :-)