Anyone defying the ban will face fines.
The parliament on Tuesday passed the respective amendments to the Law on Administrative Offences and the Law on Assemblies in a vote of 124 to one with two abstentions.
The new legislation has yet to be signed into law by President Gitanas Nauseda.
It prohibits the use of „symbols of totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, which were used or are being used by those regimes for their past or present military aggression and/or propaganda of crimes against humanity and war crimes that were committed or are being committed“.
The amendments specify in particular that „the two-color (black and orange) St George’s Ribbon shall be deemed” such a symbol „in all cases“.
The ban also covers the letters „Z“ and „V“, which have become the symbols of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The dreaded Georgian Ribbon of Doom
I for one hope those three miscreants who failed to vote for this measure face the consequences.