The Soviet flag has replaced the Norwegian at top in the coal loading crane at the harbor in Pyramiden. Russia’s tricolor is still there to the right, however less visible than the U.S.S.R. flag.

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 operation to put the trident in place of the Soviet emblem on the 62-metre-tall steel figure of a woman, known as the Fatherland Mother, began last month ...

For Kyiv's Motherland monument, 2023 marks an era of rebirth. In late July, the national landmark saw the Soviet hammer and sickle that once adorned its shield replaced with the tryzub, the Ukrainian ...

WASHINGTON — The switchboard operator now answers “Hello, Russian Embassy.” The Russian tricolor of Peter the Great now flies from the roof. And the wall by the front door is blank where a sign once ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media. "The post about Germany’s 1945 division into four ...

In large parts of Berlin it will be forbidden to display Soviet flags during the commemoration of the liberation of Germany from fascism in 1945. Among places included in the ban are memorials, ...

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 ...