Swastika on the monument to Alexander Nevsky in Novgorod the Great

On November 6, 2007, it was reported that vandals in Veliky Novgorod had painted swastikas and "other drawings" on the pedestal of the monument to Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky on the embankment of the Volkhov River.

The police are looking for the perpetrators.

in 2007 Cases of vandalism against monuments in Novgorod were already registered .

Letyagin A. Vandals desecrated the monument to Alexander Nevsky in Veliky Novgorod // RIA Novosti. 2007. November 6.