Barentsburg, Norway‘s Svalbard archipelago: on the 9th of May, Russia staged a military-style propaganda parade down the main street, with more than 50 vehicles, a helicopter and snowmobiles driven by men in military-like uniforms. The small Arctic town is inhabited mainly by Russian and Ukrainian citizens, and it looked like Russia, where the 9th of May is a main national day that celebrates the victory in second world war: nevertheless, this is Norway, several thousand kilometres away from the Russian mainland.
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