VIENNA — Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits were completed Wednesday on the wall behind the monument, which was already painted in Ukraine’s blue … Read more
The Arizona Legislature’s top two Republicans have challenged Democratic President Joe Biden’s creation of a new national monument last summer just outside Grand Canyon National Park, alleging he exceeded his legal authority in making that designation under a century-old law that lets presidents protect sites considered historically or culturally important. In a lawsuit filed Monday … Read more
On Jan. 22, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a three-story monument made of marble, sandstone, and teak that features 44 gates and 392 intricately-carved pillars. But the structure, built on a vast 70-acre plot, may be the least remarkable part of the new Ayodhya temple. Its controversial inauguration atop the ruins of a … Read more
When Joko Widodo, popularly as Jokowi, was sworn in as Indonesia’s seventh President in 2014, optimism surrounding the state of democracy in the country seemed at its peak. At a time when dynasties traditionally dominated Indonesia’s political arena, the ascension of Jokowi, who was a carpenter and furniture businessman before becoming the governor of Jakarta, … Read more
In Edgar Wright’s classic sitcom Spaced, there was an episode (Art) where Tim (Simon Pegg) was obsessed with playing Resident Evil 2. He gets so engrossed in it that he cannot tell reality from fiction (the dose of amphetamines probably didn’t help either), and subsequently batters some arty types in his hallucinatory panic. It’s the … Read more
A Kyiv monument traded a 42-year-old Soviet coat of arms for a contemporary trident Sunday, a swap that exemplifies the war-torn nation’s struggle towards the Twenty first-century Russian military and the vestiges of Ukraine’s Soviet previous. The Motherland Monument, a 335-foot statue of a girl holding a sword and defend, has towered over Kyiv since … Read more
It was the spring of 2016, and I used to be within the Oval Workplace, ready to interview for a job. Solely I wasn’t in Washington, DC. I used to be on the headquarters of GitHub, a code internet hosting platform, in San Francisco, sitting inside an ideal, full-size reproduction of the workplace of the … Read more
The monument toi Andrey Vlasov in Nanuet, N.Y. (Colin Campbell/Yahoo Information) NANUET, N.Y. — On Tuesday, Russia celebrated Victory Day, the annual nationwide vacation that marks the Soviet Union’s overcome Nazi Germany in 1945. With the battle in Ukraine now in its second 12 months and Russia condemned by a lot of the world for … Read more