Putin wont be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the revolution

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The Kremlin would not be holding any special events for the day, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. During the Soviet era, the revolution was marked with a public holiday and military parades on Red Square in Moscow. Under Putin, November 7 became a regular working day in 2005. Red Square did host a military parade on Tuesday, but it was a stylized re-enactment of a Soviet 1941 Second World War event that offered only the briefest of nods to the 1917 uprising and was not shown live on state TV. Putin himself skipped most of the key commemorative events, including a 3D light show, this weekend on the facade of the Winter Palace in his hometown of Saint Petersburg. He did attend the opening of a new church in Moscow, which he called "deeply symbolic" after the revolution led to the destruction of religious buildings and persecution of believers.

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