The Russian Foreign Ministry called the Criterion for entering the country into the list of unfriendly. This was announced by the deputy head of the foreign policy department Mikhail Bogdanov, RIA Novosti reports.
Diplomat said that the disrespectful attitude in the Soviet monuments dedicated to the Great Patriotic War could cause the country’s inclusion in the list. He stressed that many states do not comply with the agreement on this issue.
Bogdanov brought Poland as an example, where the authorities introduced the concept of “symbolic monuments to be decommunication”. He recalled that the Polish and Russian government in February 1994 concluded an agreement on burials and places of memory of the heroes of war and repression.
The Deputy Foreign Ministry also noted that out of 561 monuments of the Defenders of the Fatherland who fell on the territory of Poland, only 112 were preserved. “In violation of the agreements, 449 Soviet memorials located outside the burial places were eliminated,” he concluded.
On May 14, the Russian government published a list of unfriendly countries, which included only the United States and the Czech Republic. It was clarified that the Czech Republic is allowed to hire no more than 19 Russian workers in the Russian dipmissism, and nor.