Russia proposes to officially celebrate the “Day of Remembrance” of the collapse of the USSR

on December 26th.

Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma Boris Chernyshev, who represents the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in the Russian parliament, proposed to establish in Russia on December 26 a day of remembrance of the end of the USSR.

This is reported by the Russian edition of RBK.

In an explanatory note to the bill, Chernyshov calls the collapse of the USSR the main geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, the soil. ” In his opinion, the Russians on this day should “remember this tragedy”, in particular, hold commemorative events.

Recall that the Russian ice hockey team got into a scandal due to the fact that it played at the recent Cup The first channel in the form with the inscription “USSR”.