{"id":2931,"date":"2023-08-24T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukropposition.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:29:02","slug":"president-of-moldova-sandu-congratulated-ukraine-on-independence-day-against-the-backdrop-of-upside-down-ukrainian-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/president-of-moldova-sandu-congratulated-ukraine-on-independence-day-against-the-backdrop-of-upside-down-ukrainian-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Moldova Sandu congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day against the backdrop of upside-down Ukrainian flags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moldova’s President Maia Sandu participated in congratulating Ukraine on its Independence Day but found herself in an awkward situation.<\/h3>\n

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Sandu stood alongside a children’s choir in front of the presidential administration building in Chisinau to convey her greetings. The children held flags of both Moldova and Ukraine. However, internet users noticed a detail that the Moldovan organizers of the event seemingly overlooked \u2013 the Ukrainian flags were displayed upside down.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to vexillology, the study of flags, an upside-down flag is universally considered a signal of distress, sorrow, a critical state of a country, or defeat in war. In other contexts, such a display of a flag can be a clear insult to the state and its entire nation.<\/p>\n

Unfazed by the flag mishap, Sandu proceeded to congratulate Ukraine, stating that its citizens have the freedom to “build their country as they envision.”<\/p>\n

As of now, there has been no official comment from Moldova regarding the incident with the congratulatory display.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moldova’s President Maia Sandu participated in congratulating Ukraine on its Independence Day but found herself in an awkward situation. This information reported by TASS. Sandu stood [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[104,23],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-ukraine","tag-moldova","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukrreality.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}