Stalinist architecture

More than 300 people evacuated the Romanian Parliament building, also known as the “Ceausescu Palace,” on Tuesday afternoon after a man set fire to a room near the building’s entrance, according to local television station Digi24.

The incident took place in the visitors’ area, which includes an exhibition hall and souvenir shops.

On March 5, two months after the events of December 1989 that toppled communism in Romania, a vestige of the late regime, a bronze statue of Vladimir I. Lenin, on the esplanade before in front of the Casa Scanteii, today's Casa Presei Libere, was removed from its pedestal. Since February, several dozen people had protested the presence of V.I.

Can't get time to leave your home and enjoy a strange hybrid of Versailles and North Korean-style arhitecture?

Don't worry, starting from this month, virtual visitors can wander around the Palace of the Romanian Parliament while seated in their armchairs, viewing the huge halls, crystal chandeliers, wooden doors, expensive paintings and ornate sculptures.

Ukrainian flag was raised on the spire of a famous Moscow's Stalin-era skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment early on Wednesday.

Protesters painted the Soviet star on its spire in the national colors of Ukraine and also attached a yellow and blue Ukrainian flag to the top of the 176-meter building.