Lithuania protested to the Russian Federation due to the dismantling of the sign to Bishop Reinis in Vladimir
Lithuania and Estonia sent a note of protest to Russia over the dismantling of memorial plaques at the Prince Vladimir cemetery in the city of Vladimir, dedicated to foreigners who died in the Vladimir political prison. The memorial disappeared in mid-October. City officials called the installation of signs illegal.
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry complained about the dismantling of the plaque with the name of Archbishop Reinis
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry expressed protest to Russia over the dismantling of a sign with the name of a figure of the Catholic Church, archbishop and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the republic Mecislovas Reinis. About it reported in the press service of the department.
On October 24, the charge d’affaires of the Russian Embassy in Lithuania, Alexander Elkin, was summoned to the ministry and presented with a note of protest.
We call on the responsible authorities of the Russian Federation to quickly clarify the circumstances of this act of vandalism in the city of Vladimir, bring those responsible to justice and immediately restore the memorial plaque dedicated to the memory of Mecislovas Reinis
Earlier in St. Petersburg, the memorial to the repressed Poles, installed at the Levashovsky cemetery, disappeared. Later, city authorities clarified that the monument was damaged by vandals and sent for reconstruction.
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The Estonian Embassy also contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry
The Estonian Embassy in Moscow also sent a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the demolition of the memorial in Vladimir. About this in a comment to the Postimees newspaper reported official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Mihkel Tamm.
The diplomat recalled that one of the plaques was dedicated to the commander-in-chief of the Estonian Armed Forces before World War II, Johan Laidoner.
In the note we wrote that we deeply regret the demolition of the memorial wall at the Prince Vladimir Cemetery, on which there was a memorial plaque. We are raising the question of finding Laidoner’s burial place, exhuming his remains and reburying them in the soil of his birthplace
Tamm noted that Estonia plans to request the transfer of the plaque if Russia decides it should no longer be in the cemetery where Laidoner is buried.
In Vladimir, they announced the illegal installation of a monument
The head of Vladimir, Dmitry Naumov, said that the memorial to foreigners buried at the Prince Vladimir cemetery was erected illegally.
There are currently no legal grounds or permits for the installation of certain memorials. That is, they were installed there illegally
The mayor noted that restoration is currently underway at the cemetery. He did not specify what exactly happened to the memorial plaques and who organized the dismantling.
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The memorial plaque at the Prince Vladimir Cemetery disappeared in mid-October
The memorial to foreign citizens who died in the Vladimir political prison disappeared in mid-October. wrote local publication “Zebra-TV”.
It was noted that not only the brick stele and granite slabs with the names of military, political, public and religious figures were dismantled, but also the paving stones with which the site was laid out.
The memorial was erected in 2006 in the southwestern part of the cemetery, next to the wall of the Vladimir Central. On the memorial plaques were the names of Reinis and Laidoner.
In addition, the memorial perpetuated the memory of Japanese General Akikus Shun, Ukrainian Archimandrite Klymenty Sheptytsky and one of the organizers of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, Jan Jankowski.
Laidoner and Yankovsky died on the same day, March 13, 1953, in the Vladimir Central Station and were buried in the same grave, its location unknown.
Previously, in the Tver region, a bust of Joseph Stalin was installed on the territory of the burial site of victims of the Great Terror – a period of mass political repression in the USSR. Busts of Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Sergei Kirov and other political figures of the early Soviet period of Russian history were also placed on the territory of the Mednoye memorial complex.
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