Russian tree disqualified from tree of year competition

[Demovictory9]

And in one of the latest examples of symbolic efforts to isolate Russia from the rest of the world, a group in Brussels disqualified Russia’s
candidate — an oak tree said to have been planted 198 years ago by the novelist Ivan Turgenev — from the European Tree of the Year competition.

“We cannot stand idly by and watch the unprecedented aggression of the Russian leadership against a neighboring country,” the organizers of the competition, one of the largest competitions devoted to trees, said in a statement.


https://dnyuz.com/2022/03/24/even-trees-are-political-now/


At an awards ceremony in Brussels on Tuesday, the organizers announced this year’s winner: Poland, for a 400-year-old oak tree that organizers said had become a symbol of Polish resistance to aggression and its warm welcome to refugees from Ukraine. The second place tree was a 250-year-old oak tree in the Santiago de Compostela region of Spain, and third place went to a 250-year-old cork oak tree in Vale do Pereiro, a village in Portugal.

The Polish tree sits in the Bialowieza forest, the last primeval forest in Europe’s lowlands, which stretches across the border of Poland and Belarus. This year, construction workers began work on a 115-mile, 18-foot-high metal wall through the forest, intended to block migrants, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, from crossing into Poland from Belarus.

[lagomorph777]

1. In better news, Putin is the frontrunner for "Dick Of The Year."

[SheltieLover]

10. This!👆

[DarthDem]

2. Which tree is pictured?

They all sound beautiful. I'm sorry that the Russian tree was disqualified because of the actions of certain of its country's humans.

[Demovictory9]

3. The Russian entrant..the Turgenev tree

[Volaris]

15. Lol yeah, that seems slightly unfair to the tree, considering it's kinda

stuck there, and has been so since before the October Revolution that Current Dear Leader adores so much..

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I may be going out on a limb

And I don't want to be a sap, but I think they should leaf it in the competition. I'd root for it.

[FSogol]

5. Don't bark up the wrong tree, now.

[abqtommy]

6. Maybe now Putin will make like a tree and leaf Ukraine. nt

[ZonkerHarris]

9. I love you for that joke

[RussBLib]

7. a 115-mile, 18-foot-high metal wall thru the forest

between Poland and Belarus ... intended to block migrants, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, from crossing into Poland from Belarus.

And they welcome the Ukraine refugees.

Different circumstances, I suppose.

[ZonkerHarris]

8. That will show Putin

[The Unmitigated Gall]

11. Goddamn tree is probably juiced.

[Coventina]

12. Truth! Just like those camels in Saudi Arabia that were disqualified

from their annual Camel Beauty Contest!!!

[Demovictory9]

13. Extra branches stuck in like they do the prominent xmas trees

😛

[Meowmee]

14. I don't think p will care

[Donkees]

16. European Bison Roam Poland's Bialowieza Forest