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The Kremlin Regiment (Russian: Кремлёвский полк, romanized: Kremlyovskiy polk), also called the Presidential Regiment (Russian: Президентский полк, romanized: Prezidentskiy polk), is a unique military regiment and part of the Russian Federal Protective Service with the status of a special unit.
The Red Guards (Russian: Krasnaya Gvardiya) were armed groups of workers formed during the Russian Revolution of 1917, although the designation and concept dates back to Moscow during the Revolution of 1905. In 1917 the volunteers of the Red Guard and their elected leaders formed the main strike force of the Bolsheviks.
The Commandant's Office of the Moscow Kremlin (Russian: Службу коменданта Московского Кремля) is an administration unit of the Federal Protective Service of Russia. Its duties include inspecting visitors to the Kremlin and providing security to the Kremlin interior and buildings exterior from the Kremlin Wall ...
Country: Russia: Branch Russian Air Force Type: Air army: Role: Air support and air defence: Headquarters: Saint Petersburg: Nickname(s) Army of the "Road of Life"Motto(s) "Securely guarding the North-West sky of Russia" (Russian: "Надежно охраняем небо Северо-Запада России")
A speaker of the Russian parliament said on Sunday that the events at the Munich Security Conference showed that the European Union was incompetent, did not understand what was happening in the ...
As the Second World War was ending in Europe in 1944 the Soviet NKVD in Moscow was charged with raising a full-time honor guard company as part of the 1st Regiment, OMSDON (then the NKVD 1st Special Duties Division), in the style and manner of the British Household Division's Foot Guards, the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and the French Republican Guard's First Infantry Regiment.
Videos posted on social media show individual fireworks veering off from the cluster sent into the sky over the field and landing among rows of spectators in the stands at the outdoor arena.
43rd Guards Orlovskiy Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel; Ilyushin Il-78M at Dyagilevo. Air Power Review reported in 2004 that the 203rd Independent Orel Air Regiment of Guards (Air Tankers) operating Il-78 and Il-78M was stationed at the base. Formed 6 July 1941 at Monino near Moscow as the 412th Aviation Regiment, with ...