Yekaterinburg’s public prosecution and surveillance authorities are going to investigate the origin of billboards placed in the city streets that call for boycotting BALTMAN chain store. The statements used in the ads are outright nationalist and xenophobic (some examples include phrases like ‘Shop in BALTMAN and help our enemies,’ or ‘BALTMAN go back to the Baltic States’). Moreover, the ads bear images of Adolph Hitler as well as swastikas and other nationalist symbols.

In addition, Sverdlovsk Region’s media received a letter from The Bronze Soldier, a non-existent NGO. In it, the organization accuses Baltika Group of financing ‘the fascist forces’ in the Baltic States, supporting the ‘anti-Russian regime’, and demands that all the city dwellers boycott the shops.

Sverdlovsk Region’s Prosecutor General Yuri Ponomarev has been requested by the public prosecution bodies of Ural Federal District to look into these anti-Baltic statements made on behalf of the Bronze Soldier with no delay.