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Russian servicemen will participate in the...

will be opened by veterans of the Great Patriotic War, to be followed by a march by Black Sea Fleet and Ukrainian Navy drummers, ships" crews and naval infantry personnel.

In all, about 2,000 Russian and Ukrainian navy personnel will take part in the parade.

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been a source of tension between Russia and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Tensions rose sharply in 2003 over a bitter border dispute in the Kerch Strait, and again in 2008, over the deployment of Russia"s Black Sea Fleet during a five-day war with Georgia.

MOSCOW, April 5 (RIA Novosti)



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