A Russian court on January 11 sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for posting a photo online of male genitals with a St. George's ribbon tied ... the presence of an army event in Sumy the ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that cements the status of the Ribbon of St. George as a symbol of Russia’s military glory and Victory of the Soviet people in the Great ...

The court said Yuri Malev had posted an image of the St. George Ribbon, a symbol of Russian military valour and glory, with a caption containing “coarse obscene language,” on the Russian ...

The Russian government has often used symbols like the St. George Ribbon to solicit support for military operations. A state-coordinated campaign would not only explain its meteoric rise as a ...

The St. George Ribbon campaign honors the sacrifices made by ancestors in the fight against fascism, symbolizing the Russian people’s return to life, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of ...

In December 2022, he signed into law a bill criminalizing the desecration of the St. George ribbon with a punishment of up to five years in prison. The ribbon dates back to 1769, when Russian ...

A man with dual U.S.-Russian nationality ... of a corpse wearing the ribbon with a caption saying “how to wear the Saint George’s ribbon correctly.” The court in St Petersburg, where Malev ...