Several public buildings and facilities in Russia have in recent weeks been painted or renovated to get rid of the color combination blue and yellow, writes the independent Russian newspaper The Moscow Times.
Just four days after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the blue and yellow logo of Khrabrovo airport in the Kaliningrad area was changed to red and blue, according to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
The Ukrainian newspaper Mediazone writes that the colors were first changed on the airport’s website. Shortly afterwards, the logo on the roof of the terminal building was repainted.
The airport’s spokesperson, Natalja Gritsun, however, claims that the colors were changed to get a more solid-colored exterior, and explains that they decided that “it looks better this way”.
BLUE-YELLOW LOGO: This is what the logo on the roof of the terminal building at Khrabrovo Airport looked like before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Khrabrovo Airport Press Office
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CHANGED: This is Khabrovo Airport’s logo today. It was blue and yellow. Now it is blue and red. Photo: Khrabrovo Airport Press Office
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Worried parents
In Russia, it is forbidden to call the war in Ukraine a war, and those who spread what the Kremlin believes is false information about the conduct of Russian forces risk up to 15 years in prison.
Now more Russians are also trying to remove anything reminiscent of support for Ukrainian forces – including the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
According to Aftonbladet, a kindergarten in Zelenograd outside Moscow is said to have got cold feet when parents in a group conversation reacted to the fact that the pictures of their children were blue and yellow.
– As some parents are worried that the blue-yellow colors may be perceived as support for Ukraine, the pictures change to purple and yellow, the kindergarten management writes in a statement.
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Had to paint own fence
A private fence is also said to have caused problems, according to the Telegram channel Ostorozjno novosti.
They write that Russian police visited a woman in Pskov after she painted her fence blue and yellow.
The police are said to have announced that the colors are linked to the Ukrainian flag, which during the ongoing “special operation” constitutes “undesirable associations”. The woman was forced to paint the fence completely blue, claims the Telegram channel, which attaches photos of the incident.
According to Aftonbladet, residents in the south of Moscow must have been furious when the caretaker painted one of the sandboxes on the condominium’s playground in the same color as the Ukrainian flag on 20 April.
Several tenants are said to have contacted the condominium and allegedly called it “a provocation”. An hour later, the sandboxes must have been painted green, according to the newspaper.
“A PROVOCATION”: A sandbox on a playground in Moscow was painted in blue and yellow. This should have made more residents react. Photo: Screenshot from the Telegram channel t.me/ostorozhno_novosti
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PAINTED: According to sources to Swedish Aftonbladet, two sandboxes in the south of Moscow were painted green just an hour after the caretaker painted one blue and yellow, as a result of complaints. Photo: Screenshot from the Telegram channel t.me/ostorozhno_novosti
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Replaced by soldier and «Z»
Outside the building of the Russian football club Dynamo Stavropol, there was until recently a graffiti painting of an elephant under a blue sky on a yellow cornfield. According to local media, this was an important symbolic image in the city.
By order of city politicians, the wall has now been replaced by, among other things, a soldier and the letter Z. It writes The Moscow Times.
According to the newspaper, the Stavropol mayor’s office has stated that the instructions to repaint the wall came from the government.
Dagbladet has previously written about a man who is said to have been fined 10,000 rubles – a little over 1100 kroner – for wearing blue and yellow sneakers.
The man is said to have been accused of wearing “political tools”, and is said to have been arrested at the same time as a protest took place some distance away, according to the US state-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe.
FINE FOR JOGGES: A Russian man is said to have been fined for wearing blue and yellow sneakers, which are the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Photo: Screenshot Telegram
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