After Belarus (slightly) updated its official crest, we had a look at some other former Soviet emblems, before and after independence. Uzbek S.S.R. All Soviet emblems were required to feature the ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era ...

Kyiv’s gigantic Motherland monument, representing a woman warrior towering over the capital, reopened for public viewing on Friday with its Soviet hammer and sickle emblem replaced with the Ukrainian ...

The State Inspection of Architecture and Urban Planning announced on July 13 that it issued a permit to replace the Soviet emblem on the Motherland Monument, one of Kyiv's most significant landmarks, ...

The Ukrainian capital has completed dismantling the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument towering in the center of the city. The Ukrainian Culture Ministry plans to have the Ukrainian trident ...

A 2.5-tonne concrete Soviet emblem has been removed from the roof of the Russian Cultural Center in Tallinn, the latest prominent symbol of the USSR's occupation of Estonia to be removed from public ...

The 62-metre (203-foot) statue was dismantled this summer, over a year into Moscow's devastating offensive, to replace the Soviet emblem with the trident -- the Ukrainian coat of arms. The titanium ...

Work to take down a Soviet decorative emblem from the façade of the Russian Cultural Center in Tallinn will begin on Monday (April 21). The coalition agreed to remove occupation symbols from ...

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Kyiv's gigantic Motherland monument representing a woman warrior towering over the capital reopened for public viewing Friday with its Soviet hammer and sickle emblem replaced ...

The gigantic statue was built in 1981 - Copyright AFP ANDY BUCHANAN The gigantic statue was built in 1981 - Copyright AFP ANDY BUCHANAN A gigantic statue of a woman ...

A gigantic statue of a woman warrior representing Ukraine towered once again over the capital Kyiv Friday but with its Soviet hammer and sickle emblem replaced with the Ukrainian trident. The 62-metre ...