Graduation ball in the Kremlin Palace canceled completely – Kommersant

The graduation date at the State Kremlin Palace was not postponed. The event was canceled, said Palace spokesman Konstantin Yaroshevsky.

“Yesterday the First and Second Channel (Russia).— “b”) mistakenly said on their air that our graduation was postponed along with the city graduation in the Park. M. Gorky. Therefore, we gave repeated information on our website late last night that our graduation was canceled after all. It is not postponed to July 1, it has been canceled completely,” Mr. Yaroshevsky told TASS.

The night before, June 25, at TelegramThe channel of the Kremlin Palace published a message about the unreliability of the information provided by the TV channels. “Dear graduates and their parents! A number of federal TV channels have released information that the All-Russian Graduation Ball in the Kremlin is being postponed and will take place on July 1, 2023. Unfortunately, this is incorrect information. Graduation ball-2023 at the Kremlin Palace has been canceled,” the message said.

Graduation was postponed for a week against the backdrop of the counter-terrorist operation (CTO) regime. The restrictions were introduced after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC, launched a “justice march” on Moscow on the evening of June 23, and by the morning his fighters occupied military facilities in Rostov-on-Don.

situation settled on the evening of June 24th. Today, June 26, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin informedthat all restrictions associated with the introduction of the CTO regime have been lifted. He also added that graduation for the capital’s schoolchildren will be held on July 1. He did not elaborate on the event at the Kremlin Palace.

More about what happened – in the material “Kommersant” “Disarmed rebellion”.