Zelenskyy / Official St. Petersburg
The session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS countries opened at the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. In front of the entrance to the building, along with the flags of the states of the Commonwealth, there was also a Ukrainian flag.
Fontanka writes that the presence of a banner at IPA events surprised guests in 2018. Especially considering Ukraine’s refusal to participate in the assembly after the change of power in 2014. Since the country does not is not officially removed from the API, not only the flag, but also the premises allocated to the state still remain in the palace.
“On the website of the CIS Executive Committee, you can find a geographical map of the participating countries, on which Crimea and Donbass are assigned to the territory of Ukraine. If you fly over the territory of Russia or Ukraine, a plate with the name of the state invariably appears, covering the peninsula, ”the newspaper writes.
Earlier, a Muscovite wrote a statement to the police against an 8-year-old classmate of her daughter. The woman claims that the freshman blogger played in front of the Ukrainian flag.
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