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Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Moscow's Red Square to mark the country's Day of People's Unity. The national holiday marks the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces from Moscow in 1612. IMAGES
Ukrainians deploy a giant national flag in a Kyiv stadium to mark "Unity Day" in the face of a feared invasion by Russia. Russia says military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea have ended and that soldiers are returning to their garrisons, a day after it announced a first troop pullback from Ukraine's borders. IMAGES
Russia's military parades through Red Square as President Vladimir Putin oversees grand World War II commemorations to stir up patriotic fervour ahead of a vote on extending his rule. Forced to postpone the country's traditional May 9 Victory Day celebrations by the coronavirus pandemic, Putin rescheduled the parade for just a week ahead of a July 1 public vote on controversial constitutional reforms. IMAGES of parade starting on the Red Square
Celebrations began on Moscow's Manezh Square, just outside Red Square, on Sunday night as projections showed Vladimir Putin on track to win a landslide victory to secure his fourth term as Russian president. IMAGES
Spain marks its national day with a show of unity in the face of Catalan independence efforts, a day after the central government gave the region's separatist leader a deadline to abandon his secession bid. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh in Ulaanbaatar on his first visit to an International Criminal Court member since it issued a warrant for his arrest last year. IMAGES