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About 100,000 people marched through Moscow’s Red Square today to celebrate May Day.
The parade was organised by Russian trade unions to honour working people.
But it also celebrated Russia’s annexation of Crimea and made no apology for it.
Marchers held signs saying: “Let’s go to Crimea for holiday” and: “Putin is right.”
In past years communists have been almost alone in their efforts to keep up the May Day tradition with parades in central Moscow.
This year the communists gathered in a separate march of thousands from Oktyabrskaya Square to the Karl Marx monument.
Communist Party (KPRF) central committee deputy head and state Duma vice-speaker Ivan Melnikov said participants did not only march under the traditional communist slogans of struggle for workers’ rights and solidarity.
“I would not hide that in one of the slogans we also raise the issue of the government’s poor work and resignation of the government,” Mr Melnikov said.
