Teddy Bears Cause Diplomatic Incident in Belarus

[Monster]

BBC published some info about the story (excerpt) :

The EU has backed Sweden after urgent talks over a diplomatic row the country has had with Belarus.

A stunt by a Swedish PR firm which dropped toy bears with pro-democracy messages over Belarus led to Swedish diplomats being effectively expelled.

EU diplomat Olof Skoog said "a very clear message" would be sent to Belarusian embassies in the next few days expressing support for Sweden.

The ARD posted an interesting article (German; Google-translated; Bing-translated) that also contains an image of one of the teddy bears on a parachute that were dropped over Belarus (click to enlarge):

 

[Brandon]

Bears falling from the sky!

Does it say how many were dropped, I scanned through the google article but didn't see a number?

 

[Monster]

Reportedly, a couple hundred.

So not exactly city drowning in teddy bears!