The monument, a 62-metre-tall (200-foot) steel statue of a female warrior, was built in 1981. (File) Kyiv: Workers installed Ukraine’s national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking away from the past and Moscow’s influence. The monument, […]
His designs made use of traditional Russian motifs. (File) Vyacheslav “Slava” Zaitsev, the couturier behind world-famous Soviet fashion that was often adorned with colourful Russian folkloric motifs, died on Sunday at age 85, Russian news agencies reported. Born into a working-class family in 1938, Zaitsev’s first international recognition came in 1963 when the French Paris […]
