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Today is the mourning day in memory of Siberian city Kemerovo fire victims, TASS reports. State flags are lowered, most of recreational activities as well as TV and radio programs and advertisements are suspended. Memorial action has started the day before.
The first funerals sponsored by the local authorities, have been held for 15 victims in Kemerovo today. The city mayor claimed that every family of those killed in fire will receive 1 million rubles ($17,3 thousand).
The last farewell to the perished takes place all around Kemerovo – in churches, chapels, secular halls. The memorial service for children from Treschevsky school to be organized in one of the Russian Orthodox churches.
Memorial actions are going across Russia today. Flowers are brought to the central square memorial in Simferopol located on the Crimean peninsula; the Meeting-Requiem goes on in a Russian city on the Black Sea Sochi, The Silence procession is conducted in Chelyabinsk city located in Urals Mountain region. The Kabardino-Balkaria authorities have moved the celebrations in honor of Balkar People Revival Day. Kazan has cancelled all events dated to the anniversary of the great Russian writer Maxim Gorky.
Saint Petersburg House of Nationalities opens the Book of Memory, where each other can express condolences for the tragedy in Kemerovo.
Apart of countless unofficial actions, an official action in the memory of the victims is held in Moscow at Manezhnaya Square at 5 pm, while at 6 pm the official mourning ceremony to start in Palace Square, followed by unofficial action on The Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg at 7 pm.
Ambassador in Russia Jon Huntsman went to a Moscow church to pray for the Kemerovo victims.
Russkiy Mir
