A Berlin court banned Russian flags on 9 May. The ban also applies to the flags of the USSR and St. George ribbons.
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First, the Berlin police banned Russian and Ukrainian flags there, but the court lifted the ban on Ukrainian symbols. Subsequently, the same Russian court also allowed, but the police appealed this decision.
In the current context, this could be interpreted as an expression of sympathy for the war, the court said in a statement. “The apparently targeted intensification of Russian airstrikes against Ukraine and its civilian population today contributes to further escalation of the conflict and shows that it is impossible to separate the celebration of the end of the war and the resumption of war in Ukraine.”
Earlier, the Administrative Court of Berlin lifted the ban on Russian flags at one of the rallies in Berlin on May 9 at the request of pro-Putin activist Elena Kolbasnikova. The Berlin police protested this decision and the highest court upheld the complaint.
The decision made on May 8 is final and not subject to appeal.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany for the first time refused to lay flowers at the monument to fallen Soviet soldiers in Berlin. Alexey Makeev informed Deutsche Welle about this.
The ambassador believes that this monument is an element of Russian propaganda about 1941-45. He brought flowers to the German memorial to the victims of war and tyranny, Neue Wahu. Makeev also urged all Ukrainians in Berlin to ignore places of Soviet symbolism on May 8-9.
Meanwhile, the European Commission welcomed the decision of the President of Ukraine to celebrate May 9 instead of Victory Day over Nazism as Europe Day. This was written on Twitter by the representative of the press service of the EC Dana Spinant.
We welcome Ukraine’s decision to celebrate Europe Day on May 9 – this is a reflection of the European identity of the Ukrainian people, she stressed.
Source: Racurs
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