Wladimir Putin was abruptly interrupted on live television during his speech at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke of a technical failure of the server. Someone had suspected sabotage. Whether it was an error or the conscious gesture of a technician is not clear for the time being. “The rally did not live up to the intention. The organizational effort was immense: 203,000 participants, inside and outside the stadium, dozens of buses and trains, nationalist flags and slogans everywhere, adorned with the Z, which has evolved from the identification mark of Russian military vehicles in Ukraine to the new symbol of Russian pride, curiously enough stored in a letter of the Latin alphabet that does not exist in Cyrillic, reveals La Stampa.
Public employees were lured with promises of paid leave, students with the tolerated exam, many came for a free meal and a TV star concert. Vladimir Putin kept his participation a secret until the last time and performed on the huge surprise stage. She was wearing an ivory turtleneck sweater. Around him a huge pavilion structure, which according to some rumors is actually a bulletproof glass cage.
Putin often interrupted: “It is not clear why the text is forgotten, loses sight of the hunchback or pauses for an ovation that doesn’t matter. The public is silent, someone is whistling, the majority remains indifferent to everything, even to the guns pointed at them by the president’s snipers stationed under the roof,” concludes La Stampa which reveals how “snipers” hid in the stadium for the safety of the Russian tsar.