The foreign Ministry sent Sofia note of protest against the desecration of the monument to Soviet soldiers
The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation sent Bulgaria a protest demanding to bring to justice those responsible for the desecration of the monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators. " Deeply outraged by the desecration on the night of 18 August, unidentified vandals monument tombstone Soviet soldiers-liberators in the Sofia district of Lozenets ". The sculptural composition of the monument and the wall with the names of fallen soldiers in several places were filled with red paint, according to the report of Foreign Ministry. The foreign Ministry asked in a persistent form to have an impact on preventing similar incidents in the future, to prosecute those responsible and to bring the monument in order. Remember, the monument is the grave of the Soviet soldiers-liberators, located in Lozenets quarter in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, was flooded on the first day of the week in red paint. We emphasize that vandals do not rarely pollute the monument to the Soviet army is not uncommon in the centre of Sofia. So, in the spring they painted it blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, and later crossed out with red paint commemorative inscription at the base of the stele. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation asked in a persistent form from Bulgaria to investigate this incident and recalled that the memorial to perpetuate the memory of Soviet soldiers who died in the name of the liberation of Bulgaria and Europe from Nazism. At the same time the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century tried to convince firmly together and to resist attempts to whitewash and glorify the Nazis and their accomplices, as well as to deal with the desecration of the monument to the liberators of Europe from fascism.