Victory Day in Central and Eastern Europe – a Triumph Not Worth Celebrating?
... pitiless towards oppressors and full of sympathy for the peoples that suffered. On 4 April 2015, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Bratislava to take part in the official 70th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of the capital of Slovakia. Despite the significance of the event, the President of Slovakia did not participate in the wreath-laying ceremony with the Russian Foreign Minister and preferred to pay tribute to the fallen Soviet soldiers on his own. This was a deliberate ...
08.05.2015