IPA CIS Secretariat Honored Memory of Victims of Siege of Leningrad

The Leningrad siege lasted 872 days and took from 400,000 to 1,000,000 lives, according to various sources. The solemn mourning ceremony took place at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in memory of the sorrowful events. Citizens, representatives of public authorities, clergy, public and international organizations laid flowers and wreaths to the Motherland Monument.

A delegation of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat took part in the ceremony. The delegation was composed of Secretary General of the Council of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States Dmitriy Kobitskiy, Deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council – Plenipotentiary Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus – Viktor Kogut, Deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Igor Musalimov, Deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Irina Sokolova, Deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan Bakhtovar Safarzoda, First Deputy Head of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat Sergey Kurdin, and other staff members of the Secretariat.