DUSHANBE, May 4, 2015, Asia-Plus — A military parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory over Nazism has been rescheduled again.
We will recall that at first the parade that was scheduled to be held in Dushanbe on May 9 was brought forward to May 7.
“This time, Tajikistan has moved its military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II from May 7 to May 8,” an official source at the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan told Asia-Plus in an interview.
The parade was reportedly rescheduled because President Emomali Rahmon has been invited to attend Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 8-9. Rahmon will attend an informal summit of the CIS heads of state, and then the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
“On May 8, President Emomali Rahmon will preside over the military parade in Dushanbe in the morning and he will leave for Moscow in the afternoon,” the source said.
In all, more than 2,000 servicemen are expected be on the military parade that will be held in Dushanbe’s Victory Park.
Servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan will also participate in the military parade in Dushanbe.
Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General, Sherali Mirzo, and Deputy Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Bakhtiyor Ruzminshoyev, will command the parade.
Meanwhile, a company of the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan (MoD) will be on the military parade in Moscow on May 9. Colonel Ilhom Makhsoumov will command the Tajik MoD company that will participate in the military parade in Moscow.
Besides, two war veterans from Tajikistan, 91-year-old Hakim Khalilov and 91-year-old Yusuf Yunusov, have been invited to participate in the 2015 Moscow Victory Parade and seven other veterans from Tajikistan have been invited by the Russian government to the Victors’ Ball that will take place at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow on May 9.
More than 270,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and some 70,000 of them died in battle. 54 of residents of Tajikistan were given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Besides, 15 other Tajikistan’s residents were Full Holders of the Order of Glory.
