Carrying the St. George ribbon car burned in St. Petersburg
The car is a " National liberation movement ", carrying the St. George's flags and a variety of attributes, burned on the night of Tuesday in St. Petersburg, said one of the coordinators of NOD in the Northern capital Vadim Tkachev. "About 4 million cars in St. Petersburg, but burned the Car with symbols of the Node. For this reason, what I have are suspicions on who did it? Against us started the war - this was before the war in a modest form, But now it is hot", said "BaltInfo" Vadim Tkachev. We emphasize that cases of defilement ribbons occur more often on the background of events in Ukraine, where after the change of government in February 2014, joining the Crimea to Russia and the start of the protests Against the new government in the South-East of Ukraine St. George ribbon has become a symbol of the supporters of federalization and joining Russia. Supporters of the current Kiev authorities are ribbon negatively and often called her " Colorado ", because, in their vision, the George ribbon colors similar to the colors of the Colorado potato beetle. In April, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the meeting of the government tried to convince in the process of festive events on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Victory Day to withdraw from St. George ribbons in favor of the red poppy. It was also noted about the beating of inhabitant of the Dnepropetrovsk area, walked on may 9 in Lviv with a St. George ribbon on the chest. And before that, Deputy of the Lviv regional Council from the nationalist party "Freedom" Joseph Sytnyk tore a ribbon with a pensioner who came to lay flowers to the memorial. Incidents over George ribbon was happening in the other countries. In may, border enforcement agencies of Georgia when checking the car demanded to remove a ribbon from the car, EN route from Russia, referring to the Georgian legislation. And in early summer on the Russian-Estonian border were caught Latvian human rights activists, leaders of the movement "Russian Zarya" Evgeny Osipov and Illarion Girs for staying in their Luggage ribbons.
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