Putin’s celebration wants to ban weapon salutes at old-fashioned North Caucasus nuptials, where stray wedding bullets are causing mayhem. ?
Anna Nemtsova
Mikhail Metzel / AP
A caravan of automobiles with tinted windows and ribbons that are streaming across the highway. Drum music accompanies the proud procession; gun-shot salutes ring down, calling next-door neighbors to become listed on the event that is happy. Visitors gather outside within the courtyards of apartment structures to clap, fire down more weapons, and cheer. Partners perform the Lezginka, the dance that is traditional of area.
This is certainly a normal scene for a marriage within the North Caucasus, as well as for a long time, one seldom seen away from remote, mountainous land.