Russia puts Estonia Prime Minister on wanted list for destroying Soviet monuments
Moscow, Russia/Vilnius, Estonia Reuters Russian police have put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Lithuania’s culture minister, and members of the previous Latvian parliament on a wanted list for destroying Soviet-era monuments, according to the Russian interior ministry’s database. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kallas was wanted for the “desecration of historical memory”. Estonia’s Prime Minister […]
Ukraine’s Lviv becomes first region to remove all Soviet-era monuments
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters The Ukrainian region of Lviv has become the country’s first to remove all its Soviet-era monuments, the Governor said on Tuesday, part of a broader wartime push to erase all traces of Russian rule. Ukraine launched a “decommunisation” campaign after a 2014 revolution toppled a pro-Moscow president and has continued the effort […]
Essay: Soviet monuments are being toppled – this gives the spaces they occupied a new meaning
HELEN PARISH, a professor of history at the University of Reading, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – says the removal or destruction of Soviet-era monuments is a powerful reminder of the complex relationship that exists between history, memory and politics…