The icon that says «Victory». File photoMANAGUA, May 10.Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Denis Moncada and the son of the President of the country, investment adviser Laureano Ortega, joined the procession of the «Immortal Regiment» in the center of the capital of Managua, which was organized by Russian diplomats and compatriots. «Seventy-seven years of victory, not only Russian, for all mankind. Russia actually lost an extremely large number of people — men, soldiers and officers, women, children, in order to achieve universal peace. We express our gratitude for this, «the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister told reporters after he walked the route with the marchers. According to Russian diplomatic mission, about 200 people took part in the march in Managua. Among the distinguished guests are the ambassadors of Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Abkhazia, Palestine and the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic, as well as Laureano Ortega, adviser to the President of Nicaragua on investment issues. «Russia is again fighting hegemonism, and we, the government and people of Nicaragua, are on its side,” Ortega, who also followed at the head of the procession, told reporters. On the morning of May 9, two wreath-laying ceremonies were held at the memorials of Georgy Zhukov and sniper Vasily Zaitsev in Nicaragua as part of the events to mark the 77th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Armed Forces of Nicaragua were represented at these events by the commander of a mechanized brigade, Brigadier General Carlos Duarte and the head of the logistics command, Colonel Salvador Lara. President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo earlier sent congratulations to President Vladimir Putin and the Russian people on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and expressed deep respect for the Soviet «victorious and immortal heroes».
