Image: APA/TOBIAS STEINMAURER
Shortly before Russians had the opportunity to take part in the presidential election in their embassy in Austria on Sunday, unknown people destroyed a Navalny memorial opposite the Russian diplomatic mission in Vienna early on Saturday evening.
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A Russian activist told of about ten men who packed everything up and transported it away. Navalny supporters again brought flowers and posters to the site on Sunday morning. The military police on site, who routinely guarded the Russian embassy, did not want to provide any information about the removal of the memorial to the Austria Press Agency on Saturday evening.
While in Russia improvised memorials for the opposition politician were usually removed after a short time, only one such case has become known in the EU in recent weeks: On March 1st, a suspected security guard from the Russian consulate in Hamburg tried to destroy a Navalny memorial in in the neighborhood there and, according to media reports, physically attacked a Russian woman who tried to stop him from doing so.
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