Park to memorialize Mariupol victims may be created at Azovstal steel plant site — DPR - TASS

A park memorializing those killed in Mariupol may be created in the future on the grounds of the Azovstal steel complex, Spokesman for the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Eduard Basurin said on Friday.

Syria army approaches ancient city of Palmyra

The Syrian troops are approaching the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported on Sunday.

Russian communists compare Lenin statue demolition in Ukraine to zombie movies

MOSCOW, September 29. /ITAR-TASS/. The Communist Party has condemned the demolition of a massive statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, comparing the events to the scenes of zombie films.
The party’s first deputy chairman, Igor Melnikov, said the scenes in which people show their disregard of history and ideals of their grandfathers remind of “zombie movies where the virus is rapidly spreading.”
“In such films, there is always healthy resistance which in ultimately wins,” the Russian lawmaker stressed.

Russia, Serbia are brotherly nations (Tomislav Nikolic, Serbian president)

Brotherhood of Serbian and Russian nations is sealed by joint fight for freedom in the First World War, said Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday after unveiling a monument dedicated to soldiers of two countries that died defending Belgrade from 1914 to 1918.

The marble monument consisting of a hollow cross with a sculpture of an angel slaying the dragon was placed at the Kalemegdan fortress on Thursday with the presence of Vladimir Yakunin, deputy chairperson of the Russian "St. Andrew the First-Called Fund" that financed the sculpture together with the "Center of National Glory".

Moscow Outraged with Bulgaria's Soviet Army Monument Vandalism. -Painted in solidarity with Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed indignation at another case of vandalism of the Soviet Army monument in Bulgaria's capital city of Sofia.

The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been given a letter of protest demanding "a thorough investigation of the vandal incident, indicting the perpetrators and taking the necessary measures to maintain the monument presentable," ITAR-TASS news agency reports.

On the night of 22 February the Soviet Army monument in Sofia was painted in solidarity with Ukraine.

“Skopje toward reyugoslavisation and against Bulgarians”. - FYROM News

Skopje, January 14, 2014/ Balkan Independent News Agency

Cultural Bulgarian Club in Skopje has expressed its concern over the violation of the rights of Bulgarian community in FYROM. This organization assesses that this country is heading toward reyugoslavisation, thus compromising the image of an independent state which is an EU member candidate.

CBC’s declaration comes a day after the desecration of the commemorating plaque of the Bulgarian patriot, Mara Buneva in Skopje. 

Σκάλισε το όνομά του σε ναό στην Αίγυπτο και ντρόπιασε όλη την Κίνα .... «ΟΙ ΚΙΝΕΖΟΙ ΤΟΥΡΙΣΤΕΣ ΓΡΑΦΟΥΝ ΣΤΑ ΜΝΗΜΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΦΤΥΝΟΥΝ ΠΑΝΤΟΥ»

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Ένας Κινέζος έφηβος έφερε σε λίαν δύσκολη θέση την χώρα του, όταν αποφάσισε να αφήσει το... αποτύπωμά του κατά την επίσκεψή του σε 3500 ετών ναό στο Λούξορ της Αιγύπτου, σκαλίζοντας στα κινέζικα την φράση «ο Ding Jinhao ήταν εδώ».


Ντρόπιασε μια ολόκληρη χώρα με την ατυχή του έμπνευση να αφήσει το…αποτύπωμά του.
Ο Κινέζος τουρίστας Ding Jinhao όχι μόνο δεν φάνηκε να έχει κανένα ενδοιασμό να καταστρέψει ένα μνημείο 3500 ετών για να κερδίσει το δικό του μερίδιο στην…αιωνιότητα, αλλά άφησε πίσω και τα «στοιχεία της ταυτότητάς» του, σκαλίζοντας το όνομά του ανάμεσα στα ιερογλυφικά και τις παραστάσεις πέτρινου ανάγλυφου.