16.09.2008, 12.06
LONDON, September 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Events to commemorate the victims killed in South Ossetia will be held in London on Tuesday to observe 40 days since the beginning of the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia. A billboard will be established outside the Russian embassy in London where mourners can lay flowers. A remembrance service for the victims will be conducted at a cathedral of the Surozhskaya Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in London. The ceremony will be held at noon local time.
HELSINKI- A remembrance service for the peaceful civilians and Russian peacekeepers killed will be held at the Church in the name of St. Nicolas in Helsinki. In accordance with the Russian tradition of commemorating the dead the Russian embassy in Finland paid homage to the victims 40 days after their death, the embassy said. A cathedral where the commemoration service will be held belongs to one of the two parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Helsinki. Around 1, 300 parishioners, most of whom are citizens of Finland, are registered there.
Earlier in August a commemoration act for the victims of the South Ossetian conflict had already been held in Helsinki. It was organized by representatives of the Russian-language press in Finland. On their initiative candles were lit in memory of the victims in the main square in Finland.
HANOI -- Representatives of the Vietnamese people, Russian citizens and descendants from the CIS states who live and work in Hanoi have commemorated the victims of the South Ossetian conflict on Tuesday. Photographs featuring tragic events in South Ossetia were displayed in front of the entrance to the Russian embassy in Vietnam. Commemorative candles had been burning in memory of all the victims killed in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict. Representatives of the Russian embassy and Vietnamese public organizations laid white flowers - the color of mourning in Vietnam, to pay homage to the dead.
DUSHANBE- A remembrance service for all those killed in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict has been held at the St. Nicolas Orthodox cathedral in Dushanbe on Tuesday. Father Superior Sergey underlined that the act of commemoration was held in memory of all those killed in the conflict, including the peacekeepers. Representatives of the 1, 200-strong Ossetian Diaspora in Tajikistan, parishioners and representatives of the Russian embassy took part in the commemoration act.
Commemoration events for the victims of the South Ossetian conflict have been held on the Russian territory in Sakhalin, the Kuril islands, Chita and other cities.
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