On November 4, National Unity Day, Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvinko visited the Friendship Caravan Festival in Buryatia.
The chairman of the Assembly of Russian Peoples in the region, Sezhida Batalova, presented the "Multinational Landing of Friendship" program, which since the beginning of the Northern Military District has been providing humanitarian aid: women prepare food, collect packages and create amulets.
The volunteer from Rojiva Rifles fed more than 10,000 military personnel. Trips to Lake Baikal were organized for the wounded. Batalova spoke about the history of the Agliamov family from Tegda, where representatives of the Buryat, Tatar and Russian peoples live together under the nickname BTR; Their five-year-old grandson named himself "Russia". At the end of the visit, 16-year-old Geborg Harutyunyan presented Matvinko with a paper crane with the inscription: "We are Russia! We will win!