Today's Pix - Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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Young girls enjoy their coffee as Russian soldier sits atop an APC ashis and other army vehicles are ready to roll down a street during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 30, 2012.
Russian army and police officers wait as tanks occupy Tverskaya street preparing to roll down the road during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 30, 2012.
Russian soldiers march during a rehearsal of the Victory Day Parade in Moscow, late on April 30, 2012. The parade will take place on the Red Square in Moscow on May 9 to commemorate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany.
A Russian man wears a Soviet army hat and a T-shirt with a portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin on it during a Communist Party supporters' rally to mark May Day in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
A Russian communist holds placards with portraits of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin during a rally to celebrate International Workers' Day, or Labour Day in Moscow May 1, 2012.
Communist Party supporters march with their flags during a rally to mark May Day in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The Grand Kremlin Palace is seen at left and the Ivan The Great bell tower at right.
People dressed as Cossacks take part in a May Day rally, organized by trade unions and the United Russia party, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
A Russian nationalist, right, passes a group of Russian Interior Ministry soldiers standing guard during a march to mark May Day in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Russia has experienced a surge of racist assaults, xenophobia and neo-Nazism in the years since the Soviet collapse.
Nationalists wear uniform as they march during the May Labour Day rally in Moscow on May 1, 2012.
Nationalists gesture as they shout during the May Labour Day rally in Moscow on May 1, 2012. Russia's president-elect Vladimir Putin and outgoing head of state Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday joined over 100,000 people in a Soviet-style mass march through Moscow to celebrate the May 1 labour day.
Activists from Ukrainian nationalist parties shout slogans as they take part in a rally in Lviv April 28, 2012. The supporters marks the 69th anniversary of the SS-Halychyna, a unit of Ukrainian soldiers that fought alongside the Germans against Soviet Red Army.
Supporters of the Ukrainian nationalist movement rally in downtown Lviv on April 28, 2012 to mark the 68th anniversary of the formation of the Ukrainian Galacian Division of the Waffen SS.
Ukrainian and Russian neo-Nazis raise arms in a Nazi salute during nationalist march in the memory of the so-called Galychyna Division, in Ukraine's western city of Lviv on Saturday, April 28, 2012. The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, called also Galychyna Division, was a World War II German military formation initially made up of volunteers from the region of Galycia with a Ukrainian ethnic background but later also incorporated Slovaks, Czechs and Dutch volunteers and officers. Formed in 1943, it was surrendered to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945. In the background are Galychyna Division flags. Lviv is one of Ukraine's four cities that will co-host with Poland the Euro 2012 soccer tournament.
France's incumbent president and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party candidate for the French 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during a campaign meeting on May 1, 2012 at the Trocadero square in Paris. Sarkozy initially called his rally in the name of 'real work' before deciding to focus on the exposure of private sector workers to the economic crisis, in contrast with public sector workers who are 'blocking France'. At the same time, unions will march to the capital's Place de la Bastille as part of the May Day celebrations.
France's incumbent president and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party candidate for the French 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy arrives on stage to give a speech during a campaign meeting on May 1, 2012 at the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris. Sarkozy initially called his rally in the name of 'real work' before deciding to focus on the exposure of private sector workers to the economic crisis, in contrast with public sector workers who are 'blocking France'. At the same time, unions will march to the capital's Place de la Bastille as part of the May Day celebrations.
A Nigeria security officer stands guard during a May Day rally in Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Nigeria's labor unions held marches and celebrations in Lagos and Abuja to honor worker's day in the West African nation. The government declared the day a national holiday, as nations around the world celebrated May Day.
Originally Posted by He219
