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XMoscow: Russia on Tuesday celebrated National Unity Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Kremlin from Polish invaders in 1612. On the occasion, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is defending its sovereignty today, as it did in 1612.

Putin laid a wreath at the well-known statue of Merchant Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky on Red Square.

The president was accompanied by heads of the country’s traditional religions.

Minin and Pozharsky raised a popular militia in Nizhny Novgorod city, which liberated the Kremlin from foreign rulers and elected new Tsar Mikhail I of the Romanov dynasty, who ruled till the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Addressing a Kremlin investiture ceremony, Putin said Russia is defending its sovereignty today, as it did back in 1612

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