Vladimir Lenin

In Ukraine's westernmost city of Lviv, a statue of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, sprawls on the ground, red paint splashed around her helmet.

The region bordering the European Union claims it was the first in Ukraine to topple all its Soviet monuments, in a nationwide ouster of symbols glorifying Kremlin rule.

But it also highlighted the rising profiles of women in politics — a trend that will continue, no matter how much it terrifies insecure men like Trump.

The demolition of a statue of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin in a small town in northeastern Moldova has angered Communist and Socialist pro-Russian politicians and their supporters - who have threatened retaliation.

The government today rejected the request from Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) to use free of charge the Buzludzha monument for 10 years, the government's press office said, quoted by bTV.

The proposal was made by the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works at today's meeting of the Council of Ministers.

A "breathing" Fidel Castro is among several ex-communist leaders gathered in Hong Kong this week, one of the world's centers of capitalism, as part of a cheeky exhibition at Art Basel.

A wooden bust of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Russian Communist Party and the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, that washed up on a beach off the Akçakoca district of the Black Sea province of Düzce in 1991 is set to be filmed, private broadcaster CNN Turk has reported.  

The Russian desire to reach the ?warm waters? of the Mediterranean goes back to before the First World War. The copyright belongs to foreign minister Sergei Sazonov of Tsarist Russia. Sazonov was actually the third signatory of the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, along with Britain and France, aiming to divide the collapsing Ottoman Empire into zones of control.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed the view that there needs to be a calm evaluation of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government’s course of government without being self-deprecating.

The powerful “Left Platform” of the Radical Left Coalition met on Monday night in what looked like an election campaign (but wasn’t) following the faction’s rift with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after he signed a deal with harsh austerity measures at the Euro Summit on July 13.

By a simple twist of fate, the prime ministers across the most beautiful sea in the world can be mentioned in a future edition of author Bill Fawcett?s popular book, ?Trust Me, I Know What I?m Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today.?