KIEV, Ukraine, April 10 (UPI) --Ukraine's Parliament banned all Soviet-era symbolism in the country, a show of defiance against Russia. The bill, which passed Thursday by 254-0, equates Nazi ...

Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country fight to reassert its cultural identity in the face of Russian President Vladimir ...

Work to dismantle the Soviet emblem on Kyiv's Motherland Monument has started, the Culture Ministry reported on July 30. The monument will instead be fitted with a Ukrainian trident, which will ...

Sergei Lavrov is no stranger to making a statement. But not in a fashion sense. So, when Russia’s long-serving Foreign Minister wore a pullover jumper emblazoned with the USSR logo “CCCP” when ...

Overall, symbols, icons, frescos, paintings, statues, monuments, slogans etc. which clearly justify, support or glorify the Soviet occupation of Estonia are not suitable in public areas in Estonia, ...

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

All and any Soviet symbolism found in public places and which appears to justify or glorify the Soviet occupation of Estonia presents a threat to national security, Minister of Justice Lea ...

Five years ago, Russia Profile, the English-language, government-funded but editorially independent publication I run, came under attack from an overzealous government official for trying to analyze ...

Even if a hand holding a hammer didn't jut out from behind a veil, there was no mistaking the monumental statue of the worker and the collective farmer, newly restored and 50 meters in the air as it ...

Another Soviet killing field, he decided, was located in an abandoned section of an artillery range. Even though he had permission from military authorities to search the site, the work was difficult.