"Peoples' Friendship" Siberian way



By: Maria Domnitskaya:, The annual culture festival Peoples’ Friendship is held in the Siberian city of Tomsk on May 1st every year. This year the festival is held for the 18th time and will gather more than 2,000 participants who belong to 24 nationalities and ethnic groups.The 18th Friendship Festival in Tomsk will begin with a festive march along city streets. Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Bashkirs, Tatars, Poles, Germans, Greeks and representatives of other nationalities clad in their national dress will pass through the central streets of Tomsk carrying flowers and balloons, dancing and singing. One of the organizers of the festival, Vitaly Volochinkov, met with a Voice of Russia correspondent. Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia