Diplomats from Germany, Poland, and Norway had been approached by police after laying flowers on the Solovetsky Stone in St Petersburg on Friday, March 1, in remembrance of Alexei Navalny on the day of his funeral.
Footage by SOTA exhibits the consuls approaching the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to the victims of political repression within the Soviet Union.
The three diplomats had been then confronted by law enforcement officials.
SOTA said the consuls had been informed their actions constituted an “unsanctioned occasion” and that they had been requested to go away the realm.
Storyful has not translated the Russian spoken within the video.
The Solovetsky Stone in St Petersburg has been used to pay tribute to Navalny since his dying in detention on February 16. The same monument in Moscow was additionally attracting his supporters, SOTA stated. Credit score: SOTA/Matvei Makeychik by way of Storyful
