Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23 ...

The monument, they said, will be replaced by a flagpole, as was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in the capital, Bishkek. The move came a week after Kyrgyzstan’s ally Russia ...

Russian ally Kyrgyzstan today quietly dismantled Central Asia’s tallest monument to Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary founder of the Soviet Union. Ex-Soviet states across the region are seeking ...

The quiet removal of the monument has sparked anger among part of the population and in Russia.

What motivated Osh to move its Lenin monument now is not clear. Meanwhile, in May, Russian authorities erected a new monument to Joseph Stalin in the Moscow subway. Authors Staff Author Catherine Putz ...

The monument, they said, will be replaced by a flagpole, as was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in the capital, Bishkek.

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia. Erected in 1975, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

In the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, one of the world's tallest monuments to Lenin was dismantled on the night of June 7. The monument, erected in 1975 in front of the city administration ...