Dozens of people protested the screening at a Russian cultural center in Sofia on May 25 of a Russian film casting the capture last year of the Azovstal steel plant in southern Ukraine as a "liberation" from "neo-Nazis." Bulgarian and Ukrainian demonstrators urged a boycott of Azov's Last Stand and other "Russian propaganda." The film, by Russian English-language broadcaster RT, echoes Kremlin talking points on the monthlong siege of thousands of Ukrainian defenders and civilians trapped inside Azovstal. The Ukrainian Embassy called the event "open war propaganda by Russian diplomats on the territory of an EU and NATO member." To read the original story by RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service, click here.
Protesters Condemn Screening Of Russian Azovstal 'Propaganda' In Bulgaria
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