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Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the need to treasure and preserve historical memory in a recent congratulatory message sent to the organizers of and participants in the international music festival “Road toward Yalta”.

Referring to the fact that the festival taking place just before V-Day has contributed to preserving historical memory of the Great Patriotic War, he said that wartime songs and truthful songs dedicated to militant friendship, loyalty and intense love for the country and native places have again resounded in different languages.

He stressed that these songs created decades ago still encourage and unite the Russian people and that they constitute the historical and spiritual assets everyone should cherish and hand down to their children.