News archive on the topic "Griboyedov"

After Posner, Georgian navalnists attacked the famous Russian writer and diplomat

After a scandal with Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner in Georgia, local vandals spray-painted the monument to the famous Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, “Russia is evil” and “Posner fuck” were written on the monument. Local activists came out to scrub the paint off the monument. In her blog, childhood friend and classmate of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, human rights activist Lali...

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What was the Russian writer Griboyedov guilty of before the Armenian Nazis?

Last Monday in Yerevan, a monument to the Russian writer and diplomat Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov was doused with paint. The act of vandalism was committed by Shagen Harutyunyan, the son of the leader of the radical nationalist movement “Tsegakron” (or “Tsegakron”) Shant Harutyunyan. According to the stubborn activist, he defaced the monument to the author of “Woe from Wit” in retaliation for the dismantling of a memorial plaque to Hitler collaborator Garegin Nzhdeh, installed on the territory of the Armenian...

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