MOSCOW, may 7. /TASS/. About 2 million people have filed applications for participation in the action “Immortal regiment” online, which will be held on Victory Day, said Thursday the co-Chairman of the Central headquarters of the all-Russian public movement “the Immortal regiment of Russia” Sergey Makarov during online-conferences.
“a Little over a week has passed since that moment, when we in the Studio presented the project in such a short time, we have received about 2 million requests for participation,” — said Makarov.
According to him, the number of applications is increasing every day, these “impressive results” achieved in particular through the media, who talked about the project.
Makarov noted that since traditionally the March of “Immortal regiment” began at 15 hours, the organizers decided to make application to participate in the online procession before 15:00 GMT on 9 may. Online procession will begin may 9 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at 11 o’clock and will last more than one day. “The technical capabilities do not allow us one day to show a few million people so that you can carefully and with great respect to review of veterans read their names. So the procession in the Network will not last one day, and as long as necessary to ensure that all moderated the veterans have become members of our virtual shelf, walking on red square,” — said Makarov.
Stream March 9 may planned on the media screens across Russia, the sites of system Okko the Sea.TV, TV channels STS, “Victory”, in the social networks “Odnoklassniki” and “Vkontakte”, on various online platforms on the portal of “Immortal regiment of Russia”.
