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Participants of Car Race for Peace–2018. The Baltic Route has arrived in Russia today. The route is mainly targeted at development and reinforcement of friendly relations between the two nations and extension of collaboration in the cultural and humanitarian fields, TASS reports.
Noteworthy that a symbol of the car race is a white dove with the Russian and German flags at the background as embodiment of friendship between Russian and German peoples.
The column of cars will enter Russia through the state border with Finland and Vyborg citizens are the first ones to see it. Participants of the car race will lay flowers to the pillar called City of Military Glory and then they will set off to Saint Petersburg. In 2 days, they will continue their route to Kirov Region where they are to attend panoramic museum called A Break Through. The plan is also to go on an memorial meeting at Sinyavinskiye Vysoty and to visit the German military cemetery.
Then the car column will head for Karelia. Then the German guests will come back to Tikhvin and go to Vologda later.
As per the Russkiy Mir Foundation, participants of the car race have already visited Sweden where they met the Russian compatriots. The peers shared their impressions about the route and discussed questions of people’s diplomacy in the Department of Swedish-Russian Friendship Society.
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