American guy detained for wearing Russian flag t-shirt in Odessa, Ukraine

American guy being detained for wearing Russian flag t-shirt in Odessa, Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine—Parliament voted Thursday to ban Soviet as well as Nazi symbols here, a move that reinforced Ukraine’s recent pivot away from Moscow but raised the prospect of exacerbating the country’s divisions. Lawmakers voted 254-0 in favor of the bill, which outlawed any “public rejection of the criminal nature” of the Soviet or Nazi regimes in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that was overrun by the Germans in World War II. It also prohibited flags, symbols, imagery, anthems and street or city names affiliated with the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, according to an version of the text posted on the parliament’s website. Ukraine is more divided. Parts of the Russian-speaking east, where a Russia-backed rebellion continues to fester, share in Moscow’s more positive view of the Soviet past. But many nationalist-leaning Ukrainians see the need to reject Soviet history forcefully to escape Moscow’s dominance, looking to follow i