The chief military herald called the assignment of “symbolic essential meaning” to the signs Z, V and O “the result of unofficial initiatives”
The chief military herald of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Alexander Manakov, in a response to the deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma Alexei Kholodarev , wrote , “confusingly similar to the Latin letters,” that the signs Z , V and O “belong to the identification category.” “Assigning them a special symbolic essential meaning is the result of unofficial initiatives,” Manakov canceled.