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Lavrov: Russia will always stand for compatriots’ rights abroad

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Lavrov: Russia will always stand for compatriots’ rights abroad


23.06.2017

Mikhail Klimentiev/ Russian President's press service/TASS

Moscow will always protect rights of Russian expats residing abroad including their right to wear St. George ribbons, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated at the session of the Governmental Commission for the Affairs of Compatriots, TASS informs. He has reminded that a participant of the commemoration campaign devoted to Day of Memory and Sorrow was fined in Dnepropetrovsk the day before.

It is worth reminding that Dnepropetrovsk citizens gathered at the Monument to Soldiers from 152nd rifle division who fought for liberation of the city in autumn 1943 with the purpose to lay flowers there. The participants pinned St. George ribbons to their clothes. Local police fined the campaign participants for wearing the ribbons.

As per the Russkiy Mir Foundation, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a degree banning production and usage of the ribbons at the territory of Ukraine last week.

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