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Who Will And Will Not Come To Putin’s Victory Day Parade on 9 May 2015.

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Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2015 · News & Politics

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Moscow May 9th, 2015, Victory Day Parade is a big deal for Putin. He hoped that despite Russian invasion of Ukraine, spitting on international law and downing of MH17 flight, world leaders would still have to come to Moscow for celebration of the 70th anniversary of victory over fascism. 

Here is the list of countries, leaders of which have refused to come to Putin’s Parade, and the list of countries, leaders of which have accepted Putin’s invitation:

WILL NOT come to Moscow:
1. Australia
2. Austria
3. Belgium 
4. Bulgaria 
5. Canada
6. Croatia
7. Czech Republic
8. Estonia
9. Finland
10. France
11. Great Britain
12. Germany
13. Georgia
14. Israel
15. Japan
16. Latvia
17. Lithuania
18. Moldavia
19. Montenegro
20. Netherlands
21. Norway
22. Poland
23. Portugal
24. Romania
25. Slovakia 
26. Slovenia
27. South Korea
28. Sweden 
29. USA
30. Ukraine

WILL come to Moscow:
1. Burkina Faso 
2. Vietnam
3. Gambia
4. Guinea
5. Cape Verde
6. North Korea
7. Cuba
8. Lesotho
9. Liberia
10. Mauritania 
11. Mongolia
12. Rwanda
13. Somali
14. Tadzhikistan
15. Tanzania 
16. Uzbekistan
17. South Africa
18. Azerbaijan
19. Armenia
20. India
21. Cypress
22. Kyrgyzstan
23. China
24. Serbia

On April 13, Burkina Faso has refused to attend Putin’s Victory Day Parade (see links below).


Sources of information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2015/04/150408_who_coming_to_victory_parade

http://euroradio.fm/en/eu-leaders-not-coming-victory-parade-moscow-lukashenka-undecided

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/moscow-defiant-victory-day-parade-european-kim-jong-un-9-may-russia-ukraine

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-leaders-plan-boycott-of-wwii-commemorations-in-moscow-a-1028011.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/world/europe/czech-leader-wont-attend-moscow-parade-after-criticism.html?_r=0

http://www.thelocal.at/20150409/fischer-rejects-russian-victory-day-parade

http://observador.pt/2015/04/06/presidente-da-republica-checa-fecha-a-porta-da-sua-residencia-oficial-a-embaixador-dos-eua/

Burkina Faso:
http://joinfo.com/world/1001958_President-of-Burkina-Faso-scolds-Putin-and.html

UPDATE: According to the main Russian TV channel (original link: http://www.1tv.ru/news/social/283430
, English translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.1tv.ru%2Fnews%2Fsocial%2F283430&edit-text=&act=url), leaders of the following countries have eventually come to Putin’s parade:

CHINA, INDIA, VIETNAM, CUBA, SOUTH AFRICA, KAZAKHSTAN, TADZYKISTAN, UZBEKISTAN, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, KYRGYZSTAN, MONGOLIA, VENEZUELA. They somehow forgot to mention ZIMBABWE.

Wikipedia also lists EGYPT and SERBIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade#cite_note-8

As reported by The Telegraph: “President of the CZECH REPUBLIC and the prime minister of SLOVAKIA were in Moscow for the events but stayed away from the parade.” Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11594295/Russia-celebrates-Victory-Day-as-Western-leaders-boycott-parade.html

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