Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 25Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko on Monday announced the dismantling of a sculpture of two workers from the Monument of Friendship between the Peoples of Russia and Ukraine in Khreschaty Park. The monument is a sculpture of workers — a Ukrainian and a Russian, holding a ribbon Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Another monument to Soviet soldiers was desecrated in Lithuania»This week we are dismantling a bronze sculpture of two workers, installed in 1982″ in commemoration of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. Eight meters of the so-called “friendship of two peoples” will be removed from the center of Kyiv,” Klitschko wrote in his Telegram channel. in Ukraine was legalized by a whole package of laws that came into force on May 21, 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian authorities on For many years, they pursued a course of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on the Russian language and Russian culture.
