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Istanbul to create working group for historical monuments

Istanbul to create working group for historical monuments

A working group will be created in Istanbul with the support of the Istanbul Mayor’s Office to conduct research in order to determine the number of historical monuments in the city, the Istanbul Mayor’s Office said. The …

 Peter and Fevronia monument to be unveiled in Yalta

Peter and Fevronia monument to be unveiled in Yalta

A monument to Holy Pious Peter and Fevronia of Murom will be unveiled in Crimea in 2018, the head of the Rostov Dementiev foundry, Dmitry Plotnikov, said. According to him, the monument is supposed to be placed on the Yalta …

Erdogan urges mayors of Turkish cities to work well

Erdogan urges mayors of Turkish cities to work well

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply criticized the mayors of some Turkish cities, where the monuments and sculptures of him were built. "Some mayors built monuments and sculptures, and when I heard this, I was very …

Friendship of Nations monument to be opened in Magas

Friendship of Nations monument to be opened in Magas

The monument dedicated to the friendship of Russian nations will be opened in Magas, the press service of the Ingush capital administration reports. "The monument symbolizing the friendship of the peoples of Russia will soon appear …

Monument to Fazil Iskander unveiled in Moscow

Monument to Fazil Iskander unveiled in Moscow

A monument to Russian writer Fazil Iskander, who died a year ago, was unveiled at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.  The monument was based on the 1966 sculpture by Kazakh sculptor Marina Eshba, TASS …

Georgia and Turkey to cooperate in field of culture

Georgia and Turkey to cooperate in field of culture

A government delegation of Turkey led by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is on an official visit to Tbilisi. The delegation signed a program on cooperation between the two countries in the sphere of culture for 2017-2018. …

Sculpture of Istanbul cat ‘Tombili’ stolen

Sculpture of Istanbul cat ‘Tombili’ stolen

A sculpture created in memory of “Tombili,” a portly cat who became a social media phenomenon after being photographed posing on a sidewalk in Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighborhood, has been stolen from the sidewalk, Kadıköy …

Monument to Reagan ‘whitewashed’ in Tbilisi

Monument to Reagan ‘whitewashed’ in Tbilisi

According to the Georgian Interior Ministry, a vandal has spoiled a monument to Ronald Reagan painting it in white colour. The police arrested David D. born in 1956, who is suspected of committing …

Rural teachers immortalized in Urvani

Rural teachers immortalized in Urvani

Today, the country's first monument to rural teachers have been opened in the village of Urvan in the Urvansky District of Kabardino-Balkaria as a tribute to those, who work in the educational …

North Ossetia and Sevastopol to expand cooperation

North Ossetia and Sevastopol to expand cooperation

A meeting has been held in Sevastopol between the governor of the city, Sergey Menyailo, and the official representative of North Ossetia in the Russian Federation constituent, Ibrahim Gabanov. According to …