In the United States, a court fined a Kyrgyz citizen $ 2 for scratching his name with a coin on the memorial to the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, in Washington, DC. According to The Washington Post, 21-year-old Nurtilek Bakirov was detained, who with the help of ...
In the village of Kuibyshevo, Rostov region, a monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was erected. The bust was not made on purpose - during agricultural work it was discovered in one of the rural wells, Medusa reports. The head of the Mius-Front search association, Andrei Kudryakov, said that during...
A monument to the Soviet and American writer Sergei Dovlatov was unveiled in St. Petersburg (Russia). The ceremony was attended by his widow Elena and daughter Yekaterina Dovlatov, who flew to St. Petersburg from New York, writes “Fontanka”. Over the next month, the territory around the monument will be improved, and the monument ...
The adviser to the governor of St. Petersburg, the head of the St. Petersburg TV channel Sergei Boyarsky said that the monument to Sergei Dovlatov in St. Petersburg had been approved by the governor, TASS reports. Earlier, a collection of signatures was announced in support of the installation of the monument. The exact date of installation is currently unknown, but it is already reported that ...
Marvel Comics, the publisher of the famous Captain America series, ordered the construction and installation of a four-meter bronze sculpture of its legendary hero in Prospect Park in New York's Brooklyn borough. The sculpture will be presented to the public for the first time at the annual international comic book festival ComicCon in San Diego...
The bronze statue of Christopher Columbus by Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli was installed on June 14 in the city of Arecibo on the northern coast of Puerto Rico - approximately the place where Columbus landed in 1492. The statue “Birth of the New World”, as previously reported, is a famous sculptor from…
In the Texas town of Sugar Land, residents reacted coolly to the new monument dedicated to selfie lovers. The monument, installed at the city hall, features two bronze girls taking selfies. Social media users began to criticize local authorities for wasting local taxpayers' money. The mayor's office assured ...
In Chicago, there is a practice of “hunger” charity dinners - event participants donate the amount of the check for their own average dinner, refusing the evening meal, get together and talk about the event that caused the donation. However, the format of the dinner in memory of the victims of the Ukrainian Holodomor...
In the United States, the grand opening and consecration of the first in the United States monument to the Heavenly Hundred and all the heroes who laid down their lives for Ukraine took place. It was installed next to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. Andrew in Bloomingdale near Chicago. The consecration ceremony was conducted by His Holiness Patriarch of Kiev ...
In Moldova, they began to dismantle monumental tanks that were installed as a sign of the victory of Soviet troops in World War II. Thus, on the instructions of the country's defense minister Anatoly Salaru, a T-34 tank was removed from the pedestal and taken away on the territory of one of the motorized rifle units of the Moldovan army. “Today, the republic has other values, and such monuments have a place in the museum”, - ...