The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 145 pips to 6.9056 against the U.S. dollar Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.
The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.
Chinese yuan weakens to 6.9056 against USD Thursday
Any attempt to falsify the World War II history and to glorify Nazi and collaborators must be resolutely stopped, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed at a reception marking the Victory Day on Saturday.
According to a transcript posted on the website of the Kremlin, Putin underscored the decisive contribution made by the people of the Soviet Union to the "defeat of Nazism" in his speech addressing the reception.
"We have never divided this great victory into 'ours' and 'theirs.' That is why we honor the contribution of all soldiers of the anti-Hitler coalition, members of the resistance, partisans and underground fighters," said Putin, adding that "we will always preserve the memory of our wartime alliance, of our brotherhood in arms."
"It is important to firmly counter attempts to falsify the events of the Second World War and to glorify Nazis and collaborators. They bear responsibility for the unbearable suffering and deaths of millions of civilians," Putin said.
He stressed that "it is our duty to prevent" any effort to justify the genocide of Soviet citizens and other atrocities committed by Nazi criminals. "These crimes were unequivocally condemned by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal and have no statute of limitations," he said. On November 20, 1945, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France established an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Bavaria in southern Germany, to reckon with the heinous crimes committed by Nazi Germany against humanity.
Putin vows to firmly counter attempts to falsify WWII history
