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...The statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, had been removed from central Moscow and placed in a fallen monument park....
...There’s a votive store of strange little statues, a bar selling the waters of the Underworld and a substantial town square that feels vaguely familiar....
...It gave rise to . . . humiliations,” Philippe said in the presence of Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi....
...Above it is a cast bronze statue of Lumumba that was erected in 2002 by a North Korean state-controlled construction company....
...When the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in Moscow was taken down in 1991, it was the acme of optimism about Russia’s redemption into freedom....
...In a June 30 letter to DRC President Felix Tshisekedi on the 60th anniversary of the country’s independence, King Philippe for the first time expressed his “deepest regrets” for the “acts of violence and...
...The killing by US police of African American George Floyd in May sparked attacks on statues of Leopold in Belgium and demonstrations against alleged contemporary racism and brutality by law enforcement....
...The year 1875 gives us Sarah Bernhardt, Marcel Proust and Einstein; 1881 is the turn of Benjamin Disraeli, Emma Lazarus, author of the poem that adorns the Statue of Liberty, Eliezer Perlman, inventor of...
...The nights have drawn in, the canals are frozen and the statues are mantled with snow....
...The destruction of Felix Dzerzhinsky’s statue outside the KGB’s headquarters in Moscow in 1991, for example, vividly demonstrated the collapse of the Soviet Union....
...be restored to its rightful place, adorn the head of a statue of the god Vishnu....
...In the New York Review of Books last May, Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin recalled being among hundreds of demonstrators who tried to demolish a statue of Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square in August 1991,...
...Sotheby’s sold an early 19th-century, monumental Fang statue for €4.4m (£3.5m), well above its high estimate of €3.5m....
...And as Felix Salmon brilliantly recounts on Friday, Newsweek’s unmasking of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as *that* Satoshi suffers very much from that core problem....
...I’m standing in the middle of Dorsington, in Warwickshire, an estate owned by the publisher and poet Felix Dennis....
...meurent aussi (Statues Also Die)....
...The finest moment of quiet poetry is a high-ceilinged gallery papered with two billboard-sized photographs by the young Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died of Aids just three years after making them....
...I witnessed, on August 22 1991, the – finally successful – efforts to tear down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of what became the KGB (now the FSB) from in front of the Lubyanka, its headquarters...
...Russia – the United Russia party emerges 2002 Mr Luzhkov controversially proposes returning the iron statue of Felix Derzhinsky, the founder of Russia’s secret police, to its original place in front of...
...as base to the dreaded Felix Dzerzhinsky battalion of the Stasi secret police....
...Here, I got up close to the stern gaze and square jaws of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky and Lenin himself....
...masonry of the Baths of Caracalla is merely a frame for a crouched black cat; a runner pauses for breath in the Stadio dei Marmi, his weary figure a stark contrast to the classical statues gazing blankly...
...Such monumentalism no doubt inspired Felix Houphouët-Boigny, ruler of the Ivory Coast for 33 years....
..., now Germany’s chancellor, had her office here - and to the Felix Dzerzhinsky battalion of the dreaded Stasi police....
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