The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia sent a protest note to the foreign Ministry of Bulgaria in connection with the act of vandalism against the monument “Alyosha”. About this informed the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, reports TASS.
According to her, the document was expressed a serious concern of the Russian side cynicism of that wrongful act. The attack on the monument was committed on February 22. Unknown inflicted on the monument to Nazi symbols and slogans of the nationalist content. This day was officially declared by the Bulgarian government of the day thanking the individuals who resisted Nazism in the Republic of Bulgaria.
“Alyosha” — a monument to Soviet soldier-liberator, established in 1957 in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv on the Bunardzhik hill (“hill of the Liberators”). In the post-Soviet time, local authorities have repeatedly urged to demolish the monument. In 1996, the Supreme court of Bulgaria ruled that the complex is a monument of the Second world war and cannot be destroyed.