Representative of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry in Italy Mauro Murgia took part in the events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The events were organized in Rome on the initiative of the Russian Ambassador to Italy Alexei Paramonov, the press service of the diplomatic department of the Republic of South Ossetia reports.
“The Immortal Regiment march took place for the first time at the residence of the Russian Ambassador to Italy in Rome – Villa Abamelek. Portraits of grandfathers and great-grandfathers were carried by ambassadors and representatives of the embassies of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other union republics, compatriots with members of their families from Rome, Milan, Verona, Trieste, Bologna, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Genoa, Italian citizens who share traditional values and oppose the belittling of the role of the USSR and Russia in the defeat of Nazism and, in general, against the distortion and falsification of the history of the 20th century,” the statement of the press service reads.
The Foreign Ministry has noted that the opening of a mural on the facade of the school of the Russian Embassy in Rome, dedicated to one of the most tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War – the Battle of Rzhev, has also taken place.
"Another important symbolic gesture was the opening ceremony of the Alley of Memory on the territory of the Russian Embassy with the planting of cypress trees and the opening of the foundation stone for the installation of the monument to the victims of fascism and Nazism of the 20th and 21st centuries," the press service has noted.
They added that a gala evening was held at the Russian Embassy in Italy. A festive concert of classical music and songs from the war years was organized for the guests with the participation of artists of the Bolshoi Theater from Moscow.
The widow of the Italian journalist and politician Giulietto Chiesa, Fiammetta Cucurnia, also took part in the events.
