For the first time, a mobile column appeared at a Victory Day Parade in the Russian Federation appeared, a return to a tradition that was last seen in 1991, and abandoned in 1995. It was abandoned due to reconstruction of the Iberian Gate and Chapel, which was originally destroyed to fill the very purpose of making way for tanks during the mobile column of the parade. That same year an airshow was introduced and it also became the first major Russian military parade to be seen on worldwide television when RT carried a live broadcast of the parade for the first time.