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Govt summons Russian ambassador?

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Roberto Galea 03.02.2015 15:56
Russia denies that Sergei Andreyev, its ambassador to Poland, has been called to the Polish Foreign Ministry over an ongoing WWII spat.
Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Warsaw. Photo: Gnesener1900 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsPoland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Warsaw. Photo: Gnesener1900 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Early on Tuesday, the Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed government source who said that Andreyev had been summoned.

However, a Russian foreign ministry official said, “Our embassy in Warsaw denies that.”
The move comes after Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna recently said that the VE-day celebrations should not be held in Moscow.

“Why has everyone got so accustomed to Moscow being where the end of the war is honoured, and not, for example, London or Berlin, which would be even more natural,” Schetyna told broadcaster RMF FM.

This comment instigated a cartoon by Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency which depicted a dog whose face looks like Minister Schetyna on a leash with a stars-and-stripes pattern.

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This cartoon was published Tuesday following comments by Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna. Photo: RIA Novisti

The dog is asking “Why is the VE day [celebrated] in Moscow.”

In the second frame, a stereotypical Socialist Realist statue of a Red Army soldier says “Because I am in Berlin.” The soldier is holding a child in one arm and a sword in the other. (rg)

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