MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have called for a new national holiday to honour the troops who seized Crimea from Ukraine, reflecting a wave of patriotic support for Moscow's military intervention in its former Soviet dominion.
The holiday would be on President Vladimir Putin's birthday, Oct. 7, its proponents said, and would celebrate the role of the so-called "polite people" - the troops who wrested the Black Sea peninsula away from Ukraine before Moscow annexed it in March.
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