The Communist Party, which ruled the country from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution until the collapse of the Soviet Union in ...

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be ...

For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...

A colossal statue of Vladimir Lenin that towered over the Kyrgyz city of Osh has been taken down, closing a Soviet chapter ...

Local authorities say the statue, Central Asia’s largest Lenin monument, will be moved into a nearby park.

Central Asia’s largest Lenin statue taken down to be replaced by flagpole - Officials said that the issue ‘should not be ...

The statue will be replaced by a flagpole, as was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in Bishek, according ...

Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.

Russian ally Kyrgyzstan on Saturday quietly dismantled Central Asia's tallest monument to Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary ...

Officials say that the body of Lenin, who died in 1924 after helping to establish the world's first socialist state, is not ...

FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan ...

While many countries formerly part of the Soviet Union have moved to downplay their ... Officials also noted that Lenin monuments have been “dismantled or moved to other places” in Russian ...