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, ...

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 ...

The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility. By Cassandra Vinograd and Sarah ...

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 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 ...

The documentation process to dismantle the Soviet hammer and sickle on the statue in Kyiv is already underway, Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on national television on May 6. "Now project ...

The Lithuanian ambassador to the United States and a group of lawmakers from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania demanded that Walmart remove products with Soviet Union emblems from their online store on ...

MOSCOW — Liquidating one of the last symbols of the Soviet past, President Boris N. Yeltsin has officially replaced the hammer and sickle with the two-headed eagle as the seal of the new Russia. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...