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
LONDON — Russians commemorated the victims of Soviet state terror on Sunday, while the Russian government continues its crackdown on dissent in the country. The “Returning of the Names” event was organized by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial. The commemoration has traditionally been held in Moscow on Oct. 29 — the eve … 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
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has changed the Soviet emblem that after adorned one of many nation’s most recognizable landmarks with the nation’s coat of arms. The symbolic transfer is a part of a wider shift all through Ukraine to reclaim the nation’s cultural identification from the Soviet previous amid Russia’s ongoing invasion. Erected in 1981 … Read more