Ukraine presses ahead with removal of Soviet monuments
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian officials pressed on with a campaign to remove Soviet-era monuments on Saturday as authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv dismantled a statue of a Red Army commander from a central boulevard. Ukraine has doubled down on efforts to erase all traces of Russian rule amid a full-scale invasion by Kremlin troops, now […]
Essay: Ukraine war prompts Baltic states to remove Soviet memorials
Russian and East European studies scholar DMITRIJS ANDREJEVS looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at why Baltic states are removing Soviet memorials…
What’s in a name? Ukraine plans to rename streets linked to Russia
Reuters A number of Ukrainian cities plan to rename streets and squares associated with Russia under a process of “derussification” following Moscow’s invasion. A day after the dismantling of a huge Soviet-era monument in Kyiv that was meant to symbolise friendship between Russia and Ukraine, the city council said on Wednesday it had compiled a […]
POSTCARDS: EGYPT’S “HISTORY OF HUMANITY” MONUMENTS FACE CLIMATE CHANGE THREAT
MENNA A FAROUK, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Egypt…
Ten Commandments monument attracts Texas shoppers, not protesters
RNS Music City Mall Lewisville general manager Richard Morton unveils a stone tablet that displays the Ten Commandments on 29th December, 2017, in Lewisville, Texas. PICTURE: Courtesy of Music City Mall Lewisville Ten Commandment monuments erected in Alabama, Oklahoma and New Mexico have brought lawsuits and removals. But when an 360 kilogram granite tablet engraved […]