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A Russian and European May 9

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Emmanuel Macron at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, on May 9, 2022 and the military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2022. © Montage RFI / Ludovic Marin/Reuters/Maxim Shemetov

By: Frederique Lebel

2 mins

A highly symbolic day on May 9 in the midst of the war in Ukraine.

A day which is both Europe's Day, but which is also the date chosen by Vladimir Putin to mark the victory of Soviet troops over the Nazis in 1945. In Berlin, a city scarred by this conflict, the Russian community celebrates May 9 every year.

And the Treptower memorial is the monument of this commemoration.

In Berlin, Deborah Berlioz.  

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It was the parade in Red Square today

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For the Russian president, the use of this great patriotic war for political purposes is more topical than ever.

But this sanctification of memory does not always resist economic interests.

For example, to the west of Moscow, the seat of a historic battle of the Second World War, the inhabitants oppose a vast real estate project.

This is the

The European eye of Franceline Beretti

Russia raising the specter of Nazism to justify the war in Ukraine.

We still talked a lot about it, on the occasion of a resounding interview with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

It was last week on a major Italian television channel.

Scandalous remarks which also raise the question of the role of journalists on set.

It is the European eye of

The Nazi past of the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg

The memory of the Second World War and its taboos.

In Strasbourg, in eastern France, an independent commission investigated for six years the role of the Faculty of Medicine in Nazi crimes, experiments and crimes perpetrated on Jewish, homosexual and gypsy prisoners.

Their conclusion is without appeal the institution as a whole is responsible.

In Strasbourg,

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A certain idea of ​​Europe by Ukrainian refugees 

And the day of Europe... we also celebrate today in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, the speech of the former Minister for Foreign Affairs Robert Schuman of May 9, 1950, founding text of the European construction.

A present and concrete Europe for the more than 5 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled the fighting in their country.

This is the report by

in the Paris region. 

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