MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - The traditional Immortal Regiment procession will not take place this year, the organizers of the event told Interfax.
"The usual [procession] format as such will not take place. We decided to expand the traditional format so that we will honor the heroes' memory for the whole day," Olga Baibulova, the Immortal Regiment movement's spokesperson, told Interfax.
She noted that this year the organizers have decided to "leave the format of one street and one square, and go wider."
The Immortal Regiment is an international civic and patriotic movement to keep the memory of the Great Patriotic War generation alive. Every year on Victory Day, the participants of the movement walk as part of a procession down city streets carrying photos of their relatives who participated in the war, and record their family stories about them in the People's Chronicle on the movement's website.
In 2020 and 2021, the Immortal Regiment procession was held online on May 9 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The procession took place in its traditional format in 2022.