In Norway, an official removed the Russian consul’s wreath from a military monument
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The mayor of the Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger Magnus Meland “went into a rage” after the Russian consul Nikolai Konygin laid a wreath at the monument to Soviet liberating soldiers and removed it, transmits NRK.
The Russian diplomat, as specified, ignored calls not to hold commemorative events on the occasion of the anniversary of the city’s liberation from German occupation in 1944, gave a speech and laid a wreath, which covered the wreath from the municipality of Sør-Varanger. Meland then removed the wreath, but it was returned to its place by a Russian citizen.
As the publication notes, in Kirkenes, for many years, people held commemorative events on October 25; in 2022, they resulted in a protest against the Russian special operation in Ukraine. At the beginning of August, the mayor of the district, Hans-Jakob Bona, said that he would invite Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Finnmark, the northernmost province of Norway.
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