News archive on the topic "Lubyanka"

Ukraine must abandon the glorification of one of the leaders of the OUN, Stepan Bandera, since this is detrimental to Ukrainian statehood. This conclusion is reached in his blog by a former Maidan activist, ex-participant in the punitive operation against the LDPR, founder and director of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital named after. Nikolai Pirogov Gennady Druzenko. He writes that he has a “restrainedly positive” attitude towards the figure of Bandera, despite...

Russia itself set an example for Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries by allowing the dismantling of a large number of monuments from the communist period after the collapse of the USSR. Olga Kalugina, Doctor of Art History, Chief Researcher at the Russian State University for the Humanities, stated this on air on OTR, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “With this (demolition of monuments - ed.) we launched everything that is now happening in Ukraine and in the neighboring and...

A series of single pickets took place in Moscow today in support of the liberal Dozhd TV channel, which the day before was recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent. Journalists from liberal and Western media stood with posters, as well as human rights activists associated with the structures of the fugitive oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The event was obviously intended for Western media, so the pickets were held at the FSB building on Lubyanka, and not at the Ministry of Justice...

More than half of Muscovites (51%) have a positive attitude towards the return of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanka. Against 26%. This is evidenced by polling data conducted by the foreign agent organization Levada Center, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Among supporters of the return of the monument, about 23% explain their opinion on this issue by sympathy for the personality of Dzerzhinsky himself. About half said that it is necessary to preserve the memory of the past. For…

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin decided to leave the center of Lubyanka Square empty, since the discussion about what kind of monument should be erected there turned out to be too dramatic. Until 1991, Lubyanka was called Dzerzhinsky Square, and there was a monument to “Iron Felix”. After the failure of the GKChP putsch, the monument was demolished by revolutionary liberal crowds. Now it is located in Muzeon Park on Krymsky Val, where...

Voting has started in Moscow on which monument to erect on Lubyanka Square. Initially, the talk was about returning Felix Dzerzhinsky there. However, such an initiative outraged many - and, apparently, they found nothing better than to put forward an alternative: they say, then we will erect a monument to Alexander Nevsky. What does he have to do with it? It’s unclear. Meanwhile, the situation with the monument on Lubyanka...

Who should erect a monument on Lubyanka, Nevsky or Dzerzhinsky? Why is this even a topic of discussion? The first is Russian, the second is an ethnic Pole, so a monument to one should be erected in Moscow, and to the other in Warsaw. But even in Poland they prefer not to remember their infamous compatriot, and the only monument to him there was demolished more than...

In recent days, the discussion has intensified regarding the return to Lubyanka Square in Moscow of the dismantled monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, which in 1991 was declared a symbol of KGB repression. The initiators of the return of the monument were the public organization “Officers of Russia”. Last year, she sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov with a proposal to evaluate the dismantling of the monument. The fact is that the monument...

The monument to the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Felix Dzerzhinsky must be returned to Lubyanka Square, where it stood until 1991. This initiative was made by the chairman of the presidium of the “Officers of Russia” organization, Major General Sergei Lipovoy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Lipovoy, the decision to dismantle the monument was made “in the frenzy of the 90s” and is erroneous. “The beginning of the 90s can rightfully be called...

In Moscow, near the FSB building on Lubyanka, liberal activist Pavel Krisevich hung himself on a crucifix, depicting Jesus Christ, and lit a fire, throwing “volumes of criminal cases” into it in support of “political prisoners.” Krisevich was detained by police and taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station. He is charged with repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event. The OVD-Info resource, which defends liberals, notes that around midnight...

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation announced the need to restore the monument to the founder of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, on Lubyanka Square in the center of Moscow, which was demolished in August 1991 during the rallies that accompanied the collapse of the USSR. Blogger and reporter Sergei Rulev decided to survey passers-by on Lubyanka about their attitude to the return of Iron Felix. The author was so interested in conducting the survey that he decided...

After yesterday's shooting at the FSB building, it would be useful for Russian citizens to be reminded how to behave in such situations. Alexey Filatov, vice-president of the Alpha association, told Izvestia about this. “For a person who finds himself in an area where fire has been opened, it is best to bend down to the ground, find some kind of permanent structure and get out of the line of fire behind it. Then try not to stick your head out, don’t take pictures,...

A shooting took place near the FSB building in the center of Moscow; the shooter barricaded himself in the building and continues to fire from the inside, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Several sources report this at once - from the Mash telegram channel to Kommersvnt and RBC. Eyewitnesses heard machine gun fire. According to unconfirmed reports, one or two people were wounded, possibly security forces. It is unknown where the shooter himself is, in...