2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade

A speech was made by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who took office just two days prior.

On 8 May, a temporary platform with a white-blue-red banner was erected on Red Square, covering the Lenin Mausoleum .

[6] This was the first time in the history of post-Soviet Russia when armoured fighting vehicles took part in the Red Square parade.

Due to the fact that in 1995 the Resurrection Gates were restored, military equipment entered the square on from one side of the State Historical Museum, and not from two as in previous parades.

[10] The military also allocated more than 1.3 billion rubles to the parade, many of which included the stones and asphalt concrete pavement for the mobile column, which came under criticism by opposition sources as well.