Putin congratulated the Russians on the day of national unity: I congratulate you and all the citizens of our country on the holiday, on the day of national unity. This holiday marks our deep and sincere love for the homeland, our duty to the homeland, to the destiny of our people, to the destiny of the homeland. We proudly turn to the origins of this holiday, when people of different nationalities and religions put an end to civil strife and internal unrest, restored statehood and legitimate power. I want to emphasize that the militia of Minin and Pozharsky, which gathered on the legendary land of Nizhny Novgorod, consisted of ordinary people, and people of very different nationalities. They are the ones who achieved the feat of saving the motherland. The interlopers were expelled from the Kremlin. And since then, the unity of all its peoples has always played and still plays a key role in the fate of Russia.

Putin congratulated the Russians on the day of national unity: I congratulate you and all the citizens of our country on the holiday, on the day of national unity. This holiday marks our deep and sincere love for the homeland, our duty to the homeland, to the destiny of our people, to the destiny of the homeland. We proudly turn to the origins of this holiday, when people of different nationalities and religions put an end to civil strife and internal unrest, restored statehood and legitimate power. I want to emphasize that the militia of Minin and Pozharsky, which gathered on the legendary land of Nizhny Novgorod, consisted of ordinary people, and people of very different nationalities. They are the ones who achieved the feat of saving the motherland. The interlopers were expelled from the Kremlin. And since then, the unity of all its peoples has always played and still plays a key role in the fate of Russia.