INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pro-Russia protesters rallied in Germany on Sunday, with the country's significant Russian-speaking population demanding an end to the
discrimination it says it has suffered since war began in Ukraine.Germany is home to 1.2 million people of Russian origin and 325,000 from
Authorities fear the conflict could be imported into Germany and the protests used to promote Moscow's war narrative.Police have recorded
383 anti-Russian offenses and 181 anti-Ukrainian offenses since the Kremlin's invasion started on February 24.Around 600 people descended on
financial hub Frankfurt on Sunday amid a sea of Russian flags to protest "against hatred and harassment," an AFP journalist saw, and there
was a heavy police presence."I came here because I support peace, children are beaten at school because they speak Russian, that's not
acceptable," Ozan Yilmaz, 24, told AFP."The war didn't start this year, it has been going on since 2014 and so I find that speaking of an
attack" against Ukraine by Russia is "not really appropriate," said Sebastian, 25, who was in the crowd.Police threw up a large cordon to
counter-demonstration of around 100 people near the city's central banking district.Approximately 600 demonstrators staged a car convoy in
the northern city of Hanover following an appeal by the Russian-speaking community, local police told AFP.Police said they were closely
A counter-demonstration in the city under the banner "Support Ukraine!" attracted 3,500 people, according to police.Similar protests were
held on Saturday in Stuttgart and in the northern city of Lubeck, where around 150 people took part.Lubeck police said they stopped a convoy
of around 60 vehicles because it broke the law by expressing support for "Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine" and using "banned
