[2] The address was initially narrated by well-known Soviet radio commenter and actress Vera Enyutina to a choral version of Träumerei by Schumann in the background, followed by a piece from Symphony No.

At one time, the program included the reading of excerpts from the book "Small Land", written by the then General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev, the practice ended on Victory Day 1982.

In particular, the footage of the burning Eternal Flame was removed, while the rest of the video sequence, now pre-recorded, was also completely updated which including the Red Square and the veterans assembled on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as crowd shots of those visiting.

According to some reports, in the first post-Soviet years of broadcasting, the producers tried to make shots from Red Square, attracted Nikita Mikhalkov, who filmed "the crosses and domes of Russia" from a bird's eye view and personally read the offscreen text.

By then, a Belarusian version featuring the Eternal Flame in Minsk and guards of honour of the Military Commandanture had been airing since then, produced by Belteleradio for Belarus 1, whose feed is simucast on all public and private TV stations.

During the Minute of Silence, the traditional video footage of the burning Eternal Flame was replaced for a few seconds by a direct connection from Red Square are the heads of foreign delegations, along with Russian officials, who paid tribute to the fallen.

The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier with the Enternal Flame was retained and all montages from people gathered were removed due to the old age of the veterans and the small declining crowd over the years.

The crowd shots were replaced by pictures of some of the millions of servicemen and women who perished during the war, and the background music was updated to the coral rendition of Georgy Sviridov's composition Sacred Love.

In 2015, a fragment of Putin's speech was replaced for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Victory Day, The initial landscape sketch of Moscow was also supplemented by a plan towards the Historical Museum, and the speech was added "heads of foreign delegations, the president, veterans in the stands, parade participants paid tribute to the memory of the victims" On May 9, 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic in Russia in which the traditional was Parade postponed and all people were still required to stay home, the tradition in the singing of "Den Pobedy" was added while people singing this with their balconies across major cities featuring the voices of Russian pop artists Lev Leshchenko, Vladimir Pozner, Tatiana Tarasova, and Dmitry Kharatyan among others.