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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 ...
Local authorities say the statue, Central Asia’s largest Lenin monument, will be moved into a nearby park.
A colossal statue of Vladimir Lenin that towered over the Kyrgyz city of Osh has been taken down, closing a Soviet chapter ...
Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.
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Central Asia’s largest Lenin statue taken down to be replaced by flagpole - Officials said that the issue ‘should not be ...
Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be ...
The city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan has dismantled a 23-meter statue of Vladimir Lenin, the tallest of its kind in Central Asia.
The statue will be replaced by a flagpole, as was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in Bishek, according ...
Russian ally Kyrgyzstan on Saturday quietly dismantled Central Asia's tallest monument to Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary ...
The Artek summer camp was founded to "educate the citizens of a Socialist society." At the centenary of its founding, the ...
A pastor in Kyrgyzstan facing possible conviction for the trumped up ... Shreider was escorted in handcuffs to a building used by the church for worship in the village of Lenin in Alamudun District of ...