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Jilly_in_VA

(9,994 posts)
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 01:31 PM Apr 2022

Ukraine flag projected on Russian embassy -- Russia tried to respond and hilarity ensued

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, residents of Washington, D.C. have been using their own tactics to show their displeasure with Russia's unprovoked attack. Wednesday night, activists took it up a notch and targeted the Russian Embassy.

Last month, activists replaced the street sign outside of the embassy with one saying "Zelensky Way." In 2018, D.C.'s city council voted to rename a section of the street officially. Instead of Wisconsin Avenue, it became Boris Nemtsov Place. Nemtsov was a critic of Putin's who was murdered three years before.

On Wednesday night, activists projected the Ukrainian flag onto the Russian Embassy building. The embassy has been cloaked in the Russian flag's white, red and blue stripes. Then the small Ukrainian flag appeared. The staff apparently rushed to try and wash out the projection with a white spotlight, and that's when things got funny.

The video shows the pro-Ukraine projection moving around the building as the Russian spotlight appears to chase it. It ended up looking like a cat-and-mouse game emblematic of Russia's struggle to bring down Ukraine.

https://www.rawstory.com/rusian-embassy-ukraine-flag/
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GREAT video in article! Nothing like public trolling!

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Ukraine flag projected on Russian embassy -- Russia tried to respond and hilarity ensued (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Apr 2022 OP
I love projection protesting! Aristus Apr 2022 #1
Tooooooo funny!! niyad Apr 2022 #2
Wonder if someone could do the same thing for Mar-A-Lago?? DinahMoeHum Apr 2022 #3
😂😂😂 sheshe2 Apr 2022 #4
I created a second post. I search first to see ifg anyone else did before creating it. Sorry. TheBlackAdder Apr 2022 #5
Epic trolling! lindysalsagal Apr 2022 #6

Aristus

(66,446 posts)
1. I love projection protesting!
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 01:37 PM
Apr 2022

Because there's nothing the object of the protest can do about it. Light has no mass, so projecting a protest slogan on a building, etc does not constitute either vandalism or trespassing. It's a simple, but brilliant form of protest and/or advocacy.

DinahMoeHum

(21,806 posts)
3. Wonder if someone could do the same thing for Mar-A-Lago??
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 01:43 PM
Apr 2022

Put a Joe Biden projection somewhere in that compound.

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