Russian President Vladimir Putin, together with representatives of the government, parliament, religious confessions, state and public figures, laid flowers at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
National Unity Day is a public holiday celebrated annually in Russia on November 4. It was established in December 2004 on the initiative of the Interreligious Council of Russia to commemorate the events of 1612. At that time, the people's militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky liberated Moscow from Polish invaders.