There are plenty of statues to Vladimir Lenin scattered across Russia, and even a handful of likenesses of Joseph Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police. But Friday ...

The statue, dubbed the “grenade thrower,” depicted a worker fighting the 1941 Nazi invasion of Latvia alongside a Soviet sailor and paramedic. The monument was taken down in October 2022.

That statue, however, was taken down during the "de-Stalinisation" era of the 1960s. Under the regime of Putin, portrayals of the infamous Soviet leader have started to resurface throughout Russia.

Brutalism emerged as a style of modernist architecture in Great Britain after World War II. It soon spread throughout the world and was particularly embraced in the Soviet Union.

Russia Has A Fallen Monument Park The U.S. isn't the only country where statues of controversial historical figures have been swept aside by protesters seeking a clean break with the past. Special ...

Updated at 11:15 a.m. ET on September 18, 2023. The thunder of war in Ukraine drowns out a lot of other news from Russia. A few days ago, however, the Russian foreign intelligence service quietly ...

A Russian lawmaker said the Statue of Liberty should be moved to Russia. The Statue of Liberty is seen on October 11, 2022, in New York City. Michael M. Santiago ...

Volgograd's epic World War II memorial gets a touch-up. 1 The Motherland Calls statue, in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd, on October 16 after scaffolding was partly removed following ...