{"id":17216,"date":"2022-04-19T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17216"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:23:36","slug":"lithuania-has-banned-the-public-display-of-the-black-and-orange-ribbon-of-saint-george-and-other-symbols-of-russias-war-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17216","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania has banned public <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">display<\/span> of the <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Georgian ribbon <img class=\"alignnone\" style=\"max-height: 1em; position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ribbon-of-Saint-George.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span> and other symbols promoting <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">military<\/span> aggression, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">including<\/span> the &#8222;Z&#8220; and &#8222;V&#8220; symbols used in Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlwehle\/status\/1516390008395112453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17219 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1036\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-tweet.jpg 1036w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-tweet-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-tweet-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-tweet-768x921.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1036px) 100vw, 1036px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/en\/politics\/lithuania-bans-georgian-ribbon-and-other-symbols-of-russias-war-against-ukraine.d?id=90002153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delfi.lt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone defying the ban will face fines.<\/p>\n<p>The parliament on Tuesday passed the respective amendments to the Law on Administrative Offences and the Law on Assemblies in a vote of <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">124 to one<\/span> with two abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation has yet to be signed into law by President Gitanas Nauseda.<\/p>\n<p>It prohibits the use of &#8222;symbols of totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, which were used or are being used by those regimes for their past or present military aggression and\/or propaganda of crimes against humanity and war crimes that were committed or are being committed&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments specify in particular that &#8222;the two-color (black and orange) <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">St George&#8217;s<\/span> Ribbon shall be deemed\u201d such a symbol &#8222;in all cases&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The ban also covers the letters &#8222;Z&#8220; and &#8222;V&#8220;, which have become the symbols of Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_17217\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/en\/politics\/lithuania-bans-georgian-ribbon-and-other-symbols-of-russias-war-against-ukraine.d?id=90002153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17217\" class=\"wp-image-17217 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George.jpg 880w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-dreaded-Ribbon-of-St.-George-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dreaded Georgian Ribbon of Doom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I for one hope those three miscreants who failed to vote for this measure face the consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delfi.lt: Anyone defying the ban will face fines. The parliament on Tuesday passed the respective amendments to the Law on Administrative Offences and the Law on Assemblies in a vote of 124 to one with two abstentions. The new legislation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17216\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}