**2025 will be declared the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland in Russia, Vl...

2025 will be declared the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland in Russia, Vladimir Putin announced during the State Council meeting

Next year, we will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. With this in view, I suggest declaring 2025 the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland to honour our heroes, to pay respects to both the participants in the special military operation that is unfolding today, and the feats of all our ancestors who fought for our homeland in different historical periods, as well as our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers who triumphed over Nazism.