The Ukrainian capital has completed dismantling the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument towering in the center of the city. The Ukrainian Culture Ministry plans to have the Ukrainian trident ...

The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility. By Cassandra Vinograd and Sarah ...

The documentation process to dismantle the Soviet hammer and sickle on the statue in Kyiv is already underway, Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on national television on May 6. "Now project ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The towering Mother ...