Ukrainian nationalists realized their long-desired goal of toppling an 11-foot-high statue of Vladimir Lenin in downtown Kiev during massive ... on Bessarabia Square 67 years ago.

KIEV, Ukraine — Hundreds ... About half a mile (1 kilometer) from the main square, one group of anti-government protesters toppled the city’s landmark statue of Lenin and decapitated it ...

He’s been gone from the White House for 28 years, but former President Ronald Reagan continues to march against the Kremlin, in spirit and bronze. Since 2011, monuments to Reagan have been ...

A petition is circulating in Ukraine to erect a statue of late U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the capital Kyiv. This is the second time Parliamentarian Maryan Zablot-shkyy has launched such a drive.

What's most surprising is that the statue withstood the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and remained in Kiev's Bessarabska Square until today ("Ukrainians are not very hotblooded people," one ...

Image: Protesters hold a piece of the statue aloft on stage in Kiev The empty plinth of the statue on Bessarabia Square was surrounded by jubilant protesters who hacked away with axes at the ...

KIEV (AFP) - Ukrainians protesting ... had already been decapitated. Parts of the statue were then brought to the main demonstration on Independence Square where speakers triumphantly brandished ...

Parts of the statue - including a piece of stone which was once Lenin's gigantic hand - were afterwards triumphantly brandished at the main demonstration on Kiev's Independence Square. The ...

KIEV, Ukraine-Anti-government protesters have toppled the statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir ... temperatures took place on Independence Square, known as the Maidan, which was the site of the ...

WESTERMAN: The plan is to erect the statue in the capital, Kyiv, on the famous Maidan Square, the site of two people power revolutions against Kremlin rule. Ashley Westerman, NPR News, Lviv.

The AP reports that protesters today dragged the Lenin statue off its ... was not planned by the main demonstrators who have taken over Independence Square in Kiev. "We can say that people ...