“The information that unknown persons painted a monument to Pushkin with red paint came to the police today from caring citizens,” they said in the Minsk police department.
It is noted that on this fact, operational measures are being taken to identify the persons who committed this.
In turn, the Russian Embassy in Belarus stated that "the act of people towards the memory of the poet, whose life and work were closely connected with Belarus, causes great regret and bewilderment."
In late December, unknown people in Prague desecrated a monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev.