Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
By the way, is super-grand song "Slavianka" about WW2, or something else? Is it more a Soviet era song than contemporary?
Originaly in was a military march written in 1912 by Vasiliy Agapkin who was an officer in Tsar's army. He called it "Farewell of Slavic woman". There are several variants of lyrics for this march written later by different authors.

To the celebrations: it was very unusial to see this picture at the Red Square today :



And now I'm going to go and watch fireworks at my town's central square. I'm going to make some photos and may be I shall post some of them here.