INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
in stone a reminder of the war raging thousands of kilometers to the west was initially opposed by residents, who deemed the
mourning and there are places of normal life
that at least 3,187 memorials commemorating Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine have been opened across the country in 649 days of the
persecuted Poles vanished from St
earlier, a memorial to Ukrainian victims of Stalinist purges at the same cemetery was vandalized
A similar fate was met by other memorials to persecuted Poles and Lithuanians elsewhere in the country, including the Far East republic of
candles, and other tokens of their sorrow at memorials to well-known Ukrainian cultural figures as a way to honor the dead.But in cities
with no monuments to Ukrainian luminaries such as writer Taras Shevchenko or poet Lesya Ukrainka, people have brought flowers, candles and
Petersburg erected a new memorial to Polish victims of terror in place of the destroyed cross at Levashovo Memorial Cemetery, though the new
