Festival “Slavic unity – 2008” took place on the border of three states

On June, 25-29, 2008 International festival “Slavic unity – 2008” took place in Bryansk district by the Monument of Friendship on the border of Belarua, Russia and Ukraine.

On June, 25-29, 2008 International festival “Slavic unity – 2008” took place in Bryansk district by the Monument of Friendship on the border of Belarua, Russia and Ukraine.

Through the years of the festival’s history hundreds of thousands residents of the frontier regions in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine have participated in it. Traditionally the leaders of legislative assemblies of three Slavic states, prominent political and public figures took part in the International festival “Slavic unity”. This year the meeting party and the organizer of the festival was the Bryansk region.

As the press-service of the Union State Parliamentary Assembly reported on June, 28, 2008 the PA deputies took part in the closing part of the festival “Let the Slavic family of nations be stronger from year to year”. At the ceremonial meeting at the Monument of Friendship union parliamentarians read the greeting to the guests and participants of the festival on behalf of the chairman of the Union State Parliamentary Assembly and the chairman of State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov.

On the same day the air flight group “Russian knights” from the Kuban centre showed their skills in the sky of the Bryansk district, information and public relations service of Russian Air Forces reports. These are as a rule maneuvers used in close air combat and a range of other figures that visually demonstrated the potential of Russian fighters.

All in all about eighty thousand people visited the international festival of Slavic nations.