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As I was riding my bike home along the Moscow River recently, I stopped in a sculpture park tucked behind the New Tretyakov art museum. On pedestals scattered among the trees, busts of Lenin gazed at ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the ...

For more than 30 years, a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet Union's feared secret police, stood guard in front of the KGB headquarters on Moscow's Lubyanka Square. Then, in August ...

A statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, Cheka, was unveiled in front of the headquarters of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow on September 11. The ...

Elated by the defeat of a hard-line communist coup in August 1991, thousands of mostly young Muscovites gathered in front of the KGB headquarters and argued over how best to seal their victory with a ...

MOSCOW -- Elated by the defeat of a hard-line communist coup in August 1991, thousands of mostly young Muscovites gathered in front of the KGB headquarters and argued over how best to seal their ...

The thunder of war in Ukraine drowns out a lot of other news from Russia. A few days ago, however, the Russian foreign intelligence service quietly did something rather odd. Sergei Naryshkin, the ...

NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports from Moscow that the city's mayor has proposed restoring the statue of the founder of the Soviet secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, to its pedestal outside the ...

The U.S. isn't the only country where statues of controversial historical figures have been swept aside by protesters seeking a clean break with... What To Do With Toppled Statues? Russia Has A Fallen ...