Russia, Cuban president lays wreath at Motherland Monument

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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez laid a wreath at the Monument to the Motherland in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of his official visit. teleSUR

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00:00On Monday, during his state visit to Russia, Cuban President Miguel Dioscanal laid a wrath

00:04at the Motherland Monument of the Piscarovskoye Cemetery in the city of St. Petersburg.

00:10This cemetery contains a total of 186 mass graves, where the bodies of 420,000 inhabitants

00:17of the former Leningrad are buried, as well as 70,000 soldiers who defended the city.

00:23The Cuban President arrived in Russia on Sunday to take part in the events dedicated to the

00:2980th anniversary of the victory over Nazism in the Second World War.

00:34Dioscanal was received upon his arrival in St. Petersburg by Governor of the city, Alexander

00:39Beglov, with whom he will share an intense agenda that includes visits to important scientific centers.

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