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| The great-grandfathers of the schoolboy who desecrated the St. George ribbon in Obninsk fought against the Nazis in WWII |
| 2025-06-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The family of the teenager who desecrated the St. George ribbon in Obninsk does not yet know that the Investigative Committee will deprive them of Russian citizenship. The schoolboy's mother, Roxana, is very worried about her son's actions: the woman understands the seriousness of the situation, because both of her great-grandfathers fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, and her family has great respect for the symbols of Russia and Victory Day. She trusts the decision of the investigative bodies and does not yet know whether she will challenge it. Roxana, the mother of the teenager who trampled the St. George ribbon in Obninsk,told Regnum News Agency about this. On June 4, it became known that the families of the children who desecrated the St. George ribbon in Obninsk would be stripped of their Russian citizenship. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Policy of the Kaluga Region, Oleg Kalugin. According to him, the regional department of the Investigative Committee is currently working on this issue. Kalugin specified that the foreigners had received Russian passports quite recently, and after the scandal that had occurred, they had left Russia. Journalists from Regnum News Agency managed to contact Roxana, the mother of one of the teenagers who trampled the St. George ribbon. She, her son and family are currently in their homeland in Tajikistan. According to the woman, they do not yet know anything about the Investigative Committee's decision to deprive her family of Russian citizenship. "We have not been informed about this decision yet. Will we challenge this decision? It is difficult to answer now. When we receive official notification and a decision from the Investigative Committee of Russia, then we will look at the situation and think about what to do with it," Roxana told IA Regnum. According to the woman, she deeply regrets her son's actions and regrets not having looked after him. Roxana emphasized that she strongly condemns such displays of disrespect for symbols associated with Russia and Victory Day. The woman noted that both her great-grandfathers, as well as her husband's grandfathers, fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. "I am very sorry about the situation that happened, about my son's actions. If I didn't regret it, I wouldn't repent of it, you understand? I didn't raise my children to insult the symbols of Russia, the symbols of those people who fought at that time, because my grandfathers also fought - my two great-grandfathers fought in the Great Patriotic War. And my husband's grandfathers also fought. This is not only the symbols of Russia, this is the symbols of the USSR, the USSR included 15 republics, including ours," Roxana emphasized. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 10, in the city of Obninsk in the Kaluga Region, teenagers trampled a flag with the St. George ribbon, a symbol of military glory, installed on one of the houses. The incident occurred on the territory of the residential complex "Cosmos 2.0", on Tabulevich Street. According to local residents, the participants in the incident do not live in this residential complex and were visiting it as guests that day. The schoolchildren's actions caused a wide public outcry. During interrogation, the schoolchildren stated that they did not understand why they were taken to the police station. The children claimed that they simply wanted to block the fountain with a flag and did not mean anything bad. The teenagers and their parents publicly apologized for their actions and promised not to do anything similar in the future. A criminal case was opened on the fact of the incident under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). It soon became clear that the teenagers were children of natives of Tajikistan, who had recently received Russian citizenship. On May 11, the Regnum news agency reported that the Investigative Committee would check the legality of obtaining citizenship by these families. The Investigative Committee opened another case under the article on negligence (article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) At the same time, neighbors of the scandalous family told IA Regnum that the children had previously demonstrated aggressive behavior. Thus, the mother of one of the pupils of the kindergarten reported that the younger brother of the teenager detained in Obninsk for desecrating the St. George ribbon threatened to bring a knife to the kindergarten to kill other children. |
| Posted by:badanov |