The scandalous removal of the flowers laid at the monument to the liberators on May 9 has divided Latvian society. Announced protests and a possible demolition of the monument are consequences of the events on Victory Day. This year, the Latvian authorities banned all May 9 celebrations. Those who wanted to lay flowers at the […]
The dispute over the Ukraine war between Russia and Israel does not end. The Russian ambassador to Israel walked out of a Victory Day Knesset session on Tuesday after some MPs slammed Moscow for its military operation in Ukraine. Things got heated between Russia and Israel in the last week. The trigger was the one […]
May 8, 2022 1:09 p.m The Ukrainian ambassador laid a wreath at the Soviet memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten. The performance was accompanied by protests. Demonstrators demanded the expulsion of the diplomat. But Melnyk’s supporters were also there. Source: www.globallookpress.com © Carsten Koall/dpa Controversial Ukrainian Ambassador Andrei Melnyk laid a wreath at the Soviet War Memorial […]
20 Apr 2022 8:07 pm A Soviet memorial and a monument to Nazi concentration camp victims were desecrated again, this time in Neubrandenburg. Ukrainian nationalist slogans and Nazi graffiti in blue and yellow paint were discovered at a cemetery in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeranian city. Police investigations are ongoing. Like the Nordkurier from Neubrandenburg reported, Nazi […]
18 Apr 2022 9:33 pm It is the second incident within a few days, and again the Soviet memorial in Treptow was defaced. The Russian embassy reminds the German authorities of their obligations; but she also asks for help in recording such violations. In the night from April 17 to April 18, the Soviet memorial […]
14 Apr 2022 6:50 p.m The annual commemorative march “Immortal Regiment” will take place again in the traditional format this year on May 9, reports the Russian agency RIA Novosti. For the past two years, the event has been held in online format due to the pandemic. Source: Sputnik © Dmitri Leltschuk After two years […]
Apr 8 2022 5:57pm The Soviet memorial in Berlin-Treptow has been daubed with slogans and red paint. The Russian Embassy in Berlin condemned the act and said it was “deeply outraged by the blatant act of vandalism”. Graffiti scrawls and other forms of vandalism are ubiquitous in Berlin. On Thursday, however, a memorial to the […]
28 Jan 2022 10:40 am The Russian human rights organization Memorial, which was dissolved by a court decision in December 2021, has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The proposal came from a group of deputies in the Estonian Parliament. The Russian human rights organization Memorial has been nominated for the Nobel Peace […]
22 Jan 2022 3:28 pm New York authorities have demolished a monument to ex-US President Theodore Roosevelt. The statue, erected in front of the main entrance of the city’s American Museum of Natural History in 1940, has previously faced accusations of racism. In New York, the well-known monument to the 26th President of the United […]