Foreign leaders to attend 70th celebration of WWII Victory Day in Moscow

Invitations for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazism in World War II have been sent to the leaders of the CIS, BRICS, SCO, EU and anti-Hitler coalition countries, as well as regional and international organisations.

"About two dozen of them have accepted the invitations for the events scheduled for 9 May 2015 in Moscow," Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov said at a news conference on Russia's diplomatic performance in 2014.

"It's still awhile until 9 May, and confirmations continue to come in," he said.

"We must preserve the memory of how we joined forces to root out a criminal antihuman ideology that threatened the very survival of modern civilisation 70 years ago," Mr. Lavrov stressed.