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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian tree disqualified from tree of year competition
And in one of the latest examples of symbolic efforts to isolate Russia from the rest of the world, a group in Brussels disqualified Russias
candidate an oak tree said to have been planted 198 years ago by the novelist Ivan Turgenev from the European Tree of the Year competition.
We cannot stand idly by and watch the unprecedented aggression of the Russian leadership against a neighboring country, the organizers of the competition, one of the largest competitions devoted to trees, said in a statement.
https://dnyuz.com/2022/03/24/even-trees-are-political-now/
At an awards ceremony in Brussels on Tuesday, the organizers announced this years winner: Poland, for a 400-year-old oak tree that organizers said had become a symbol of Polish resistance to aggression and its warm welcome to refugees from Ukraine. The second place tree was a 250-year-old oak tree in the Santiago de Compostela region of Spain, and third place went to a 250-year-old cork oak tree in Vale do Pereiro, a village in Portugal.
The Polish tree sits in the Bialowieza forest, the last primeval forest in Europes lowlands, which stretches across the border of Poland and Belarus. This year, construction workers began work on a 115-mile, 18-foot-high metal wall through the forest, intended to block migrants, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, from crossing into Poland from Belarus.
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Russian tree disqualified from tree of year competition (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Mar 2022
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. In better news, Putin is the frontrunner for "Dick Of The Year."
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)10. This!👆
DarthDem
(5,255 posts)2. Which tree is pictured?
They all sound beautiful. I'm sorry that the Russian tree was disqualified because of the actions of certain of its country's humans.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)3. The Russian entrant..the Turgenev tree
Volaris
(10,271 posts)15. Lol yeah, that seems slightly unfair to the tree, considering it's kinda
stuck there, and has been so since before the October Revolution that Current Dear Leader adores so much..
DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)4. I may be going out on a limb
And I don't want to be a sap, but I think they should leaf it in the competition. I'd root for it.
FSogol
(45,484 posts)5. Don't bark up the wrong tree, now.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)6. Maybe now Putin will make like a tree and leaf Ukraine. nt
ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)9. I love you for that joke
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)7. a 115-mile, 18-foot-high metal wall thru the forest
between Poland and Belarus ... intended to block migrants, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, from crossing into Poland from Belarus.
And they welcome the Ukraine refugees.
Different circumstances, I suppose.
ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)8. That will show Putin
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,811 posts)11. Goddamn tree is probably juiced.
Coventina
(27,120 posts)12. Truth! Just like those camels in Saudi Arabia that were disqualified
from their annual Camel Beauty Contest!!!
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)13. Extra branches stuck in like they do the prominent xmas trees
😛
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)14. I don't think p will care
Donkees
(31,406 posts)16. European Bison Roam Poland's Bialowieza Forest