In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Eighty years ago on this precise date, workers at the World’s Fair 1937 in Paris put the finishing touches on the landmark icon of Soviet monument ... holding a hammer and a sickle over their ...

Throughout the former Soviet Union, almost unlimited public money ... The mural has had its hammer (in the Soviet hammer-and-sickle motif) removed and is now back on display (behind scaffolding).

On Christmas Day 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his post, and the hammer and sickle flag were promptly lowered from the Kremlin shortly afterward. The following day ...

However, the hammer and sickle emblems in particular have been ... association with the brutal repressions conducted by the Soviet Union and its local proxies in communist-era Czechoslovakia.

TEHRAN- An adaptation of Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich’s play “Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts” is currently on ...