00:00And on Sunday, the Brick Russia led the traditional Scarlet Sails School Graduation Festival on the Neva River in St. Petersburg.
00:07Every year, the festival becomes a citywide celebration that includes water fireworks displays, followed by a concert in Palace Square.
00:15The celebration welcomes some 100,000 people, including 520 children from the sister city of Mariupol,
00:20and some 500 children from Abkhazia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Venezuela, and African countries,
00:28invited by personal invitation from the Governor of St. Petersburg.
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