MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow has sent a note of protest to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry demanding to bring to justice those guilty of desecration of a monument to Soviet warriors, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released Wednesday.
“We express our deep indignation at the desecration of the monument to Soviet warriors-liberators in Lozenets district in Sofia on the night of August 17,” the statement said.
“In light of this outrageous act of vandalism, a note of protest was sent at once to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry demanding taking measures to prevent incidents of this kind in the future, bringing those guilty of the act to justice and restoring the respectable look of the monument,” the ministry continued in the statement.
The monument in Sofia is said to have been splattered with red paint.
Back in May, Russia already faced an act of desecration of a monument to Soviet warriors. Russia sent a note of protest to Poland urging authorities to investigate the circumstances of the desecration of the Red Army memorial in the town of Raciborz.
